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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.
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:
Last edited by notsotechsavvy; 08 Dec 2013 at 21:38.