Solved WD WD20EARX external drive crashing PC

[BSeanD]

Hi guys,

I have a win7 home premium PC that has a Western Digital external drive attached to it. Recently, possibly in the last month, it's been giving me grief.
When it is plugged in the PC slows down to a crawl and at times I get a BSOD. I have been unable to save to the drive for a while so I formatted it using the command prompt. It still slows the PC down and I believe it still cannot be written to ( I'll have to check this on the weekend ).
Has anyone else come across this.
Oh I have tried different USB sockets and still get the same results.

Thanks,

Sean

 

[sdowney717]

Why not use disk management, then delete the partitions and remake them.
Its under administrative tools, computer management

 

[BSeanD]

Hi sdowney717,

I think you may have misunderstood my question. I have formatted the drive but I'm wanting to know what could be causing it to crash my PC.

 

[sdowney717]

Yes you formatted but did not remove the existing partition, maybe that has some issue, malware, I dont know.
Is the drive still warranted?

 

[azasadny]

The drive could be failing, I've seen exactly the same thing with failing drives.

 

[BSeanD]

Just an FYI, the drive has packed up completely.