External hard drive "hanging" or infinite loading.

So I have a pretty, well not old, but it's not a product they carry anymore external hard drive and I had some issues with it in the past (mainly the usb port not being soldered on properly and falling off); so I just received all my replacement cords for it and ran it, it took *forever* for it to load up, which I felt was understandable seeing as there's like 200+ GB on it but when I go to like drag one item from it, it'll take more than 10 minutes and if I cancel it, it just loads.. and loads and loads; I don't know what it's doing but when it's like that, I can't do anything with it and to actually make it browse-able again, I have to force a shut down. (hold the power button)

And the files I am trying to move are just 2.5MB so they shouldn't even be taking this long..

I have quite a few files I wish to save otherwise I'd just format the whole thing but I can't when it just hangs onto the loading.

Is there a way for me to save these files?
I tried to upload them a hosting but it freezes when I do; same with dragging the images into windows paint.

Please help!

I just tried to upload some of the pictures to mediafire and it literally froze my web browser.

notsotechsavvy said:

I stand corrected, apparently this portable hard drive is not done frustrating me just yet.
Pretty sure I forgot to mention what portable hard drive I have and here it is.
The problem I'm having now is that I managed to save the files I needed from it and I formatted it just a few moments ago, but now if I access say like a picture or a video from my hard drive (there is only one file there so there is absolutely NO reason for this hard drive to be slow); it will take forever for it to load/open (my windows picture preview thing actually stops responding and so does any other opener)

That's what it's sitting at currently and will stay like that.

If I were to save that video onto my C: drive and open it there, it would not have any issues; but anything has issues opening from the hard drive.

I have to often restart it so it stops loading and so I can use explorer without it not responding.

I figured, maybe I don't have the drivers or something, so I went to the Seagate website and downloaded their driver software thing; it allowed me to check my hard drive for any issues and such. It came up clean and apparently my hard drive is functioning properly.

So I don't have an answer for this.

Allow me to show you what my Windows Media Player currently looks like and how it'll stay until I force my computer to restart:

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