TL;DR Whenever I plugin or access my hard-drive, through explorer, device manager, CMD, or any other method, it does not respond and freezes my computers functionality.
I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a while now to no avail, so I;m in need of help.
This is what happens:
The drive "freezes" and is just plain inaccessible. It also kills my internet (Ethernet cable on same MB hub, but also does it on any other hub as well).
I cannot get anything more other than "properties" where it reports all is well.
It lags my start-up significantly, and also wont allow my computer to shut down, freezes at the windows shutdown screen - if I unplug it during shutdown (this is after like 100 attempts without this measure) then my computer shuts down immediately.
The HD is a Hitachi 1TB USB 3.0 - Model Number: HTOLMX3NA10001ABB
I'm using Windows 7 64bit.
Here is what I've tried and what the results were:
I've been trying to troubleshoot this for a while now to no avail, so I;m in need of help.
This is what happens:
The drive "freezes" and is just plain inaccessible. It also kills my internet (Ethernet cable on same MB hub, but also does it on any other hub as well).
I cannot get anything more other than "properties" where it reports all is well.
It lags my start-up significantly, and also wont allow my computer to shut down, freezes at the windows shutdown screen - if I unplug it during shutdown (this is after like 100 attempts without this measure) then my computer shuts down immediately.
The HD is a Hitachi 1TB USB 3.0 - Model Number: HTOLMX3NA10001ABB
I'm using Windows 7 64bit.
Here is what I've tried and what the results were:
■ Unplugging the drive before startup - Everything starts up swimmingly, once i plug in the drive, fail
■ Turned off AutoPlay - This resulted in everything starting up correctly, with the drive already plugged in, but then once i tried accessing it through "Add Device" = fail
■ CMD access - just stops with the blinking "_" after trying to get to the drive
■ Add a device - not popping up
■ Device manager - checked the USB hubs and the drivers, all good
■ Another Computer - Tried it on my friends machine running Win7 32. same issues appeared
This made me determine that it is solely the drive, not my machine
■Update: Tried accessing the drive through a pre-boot Avast scan - fails
Update: If i unplug the drive mid freeze - everything pops back to normal...
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