External Hard Disk becomes very slow and Windows explorer takes too much time to identify the Hard Disk

RalphTheRocker

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I have a Seagate 500 GB Hard disk which was working fine for a year. The Hard disk is powered by USB cable. It had 120 GB memory of free space. Now when I connect my HD, my windows keeps loading it and all I can see is the Hard disk symbol in 'My computer' screen without my Hard disk name in it ( Normally it used to show my HD name and available memory in it but now its just Disk symbol ) and I am unable to access it as the windows is loading infinitely. :(

I tried running chkdsk \F and \R but nothing happening.

Could Some one please suggest me a solution. I have very important data in it :(

I don't know whether it might be helpful but for your info...
Recently I had a folder accessing problem in Hard Disk (not accessible : Data Cyclic redundancy error) for a particular folder in the HD. I ran chkdsk /f two times and both time the Prompt ran too much time (a whole day) and so I had to cancel it.
 

RalphTheRocker

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I would like to but once I connect my Hard disk, my system gets too slow and doesn't opens up my Hard disk. I even tried to restart the system with hard disk attached but the shut down process takes too much time and eventually windows is doing a forced shutdown.
I tried connecting it to an another system but that system also behaves the same way. ( Ignoring the fact both are same configuration and same company).
Could you please advise me on a way to retrieve the contents in the Hard disk ? Thanks in Advance
 

studlyman

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I have the same issue and in my case it has nothing to do with the HD dying. The more I fill up the drive, for some reason, the slower windows recognizes it?! Empty the drive and it is fast again?! Don't know what the exact issue is, but it has to do with drive content.