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    Question HDD is making my whole laptop unresponsive.

    My sources are limited on-board, as I like to travel light. Nonetheless, I understand what you mean. A backup HDD back home is a must from now on.
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    Question HDD is making my whole laptop unresponsive.

    Fingers crossed I can use it again. It was a rather expensive one. 😮‍💨
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    Question HDD is making my whole laptop unresponsive.

    I see. Thank you for your time. I'm never sharing a hard drive ever again. I'll wait until I disembark to work on it. Maybe by chance I might be able to save it.
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    Question HDD is making my whole laptop unresponsive.

    So, no possible solution?
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    Question HDD is making my whole laptop unresponsive.

    I forgot to mention that, if the file explorer doesn't crash and it fully loads the green bar on top, a message appears which writes the parameter is incorrect.
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    Question HDD is making my whole laptop unresponsive.

    Yes it is an external one. Could this be a result of the HDD being dropped and breaking something?
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    Question HDD is making my whole laptop unresponsive.

    I did, he told me he just copied some movies and that's it. Next time he went to use it again, he had the same problem.
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    Question HDD is making my whole laptop unresponsive.

    I recently bought 5TB Western Digital, brand new, no issues, installation went smoothly, mainly used to store movies and TV show, since I have no internet on board (I'm a sailor). I wanted to take some classic old movies from a colleague and once he returned it to me, my HDD was useless. It...