toshiba hard drive

So I have two similar problems with the toshiba usb hard drive. The first is that there seems to be a timeout. What I mean is that when I'm not using it, it asks me to sign in again. This is a major problem when downloading things to that drive. There is also a problem where the drive asks me...

I have a 2 tb toshiba canvio hard drive that I bought a couple of months ago that was working fine. I recently lent it to a friend of mine because he was having issues with his macbook and apple support said he needed some extra space to do whatever it was he needed to do. Well when I got back...