Question External drive causes freeze up

[je1983]

I have a Lacie 1tb hard drive (Hitachi) with a USB type B connector. I've had to wipe it and format it twice in the past because it failed. I had always been under the impression that the failures were caused by the loose connection with the type B connector. It's not an important drive, it does not contain anything I don't have backed up.

Anyway, I tried connecting it again after formatting the drive. All of a sudden it cannot be detected, then I get this prompt saying I need to format the drive before windows can open it, or something to that effect. After my first attempt to format it disappeared. Now I can only access it through the Disk Management where it shows up as a RAW HDD.

I'm now using it on an external drive adapter, not the lacie enclosure it came with.
In the past I've had success changing the drive name or formatting it but doing so now only causes the pc to slow or freeze up. Right clicking, checking properties and that sort of thing causes it to freeze. As soon as I disconnect it, everything immediately starts working like normal and promots prompts that are associated with the drive suddenly pop up.

Not sure if this is a bad drive.

 

[popatim]

This is typically a sign of a hardware issue with the drive itself.
It could be the adapter, such as not providing enough power (is this a 3.5" drive?)
It could be the drive is larger then the adapter supports (ie: greater then 2TB)
Or the drive is now damaged from the repeated power issues. (try running crystaldiskinfo and checking the SMART output, or use the drive manufacturers diagnostic utility to check SMART and see if it fails)

 

[je1983]

This is typically a sign of a hardware issue with the drive itself.
It could be the adapter, such as not providing enough power (is this a 3.5" drive?)
It could be the drive is larger then the adapter supports (ie: greater then 2TB)
Or the drive is now damaged from the repeated power issues. (try running crystaldiskinfo and checking the SMART output, or use the drive manufacturers diagnostic utility to check SMART and see if it fails)

Thanks. I tried running hdtune but I can't even start a benchmark test because of some error and it disconnects. I tried an error scan it ran for a bit (showed three or four bad sectors), then stopped after 500mb or so. It is a 3.5'' but I doubt that has anything to do with it. My adapter seems sufficiently powered and I have no problems with the two other drives (2.5'') that I've used.

I think at this point it's safe to say there is something wrong with the drive.

The only thing now, due to the frequent freeze up's from my attempts to run the drive, I now have an issue with the internet icon on the bottom left (win7premium) showing up as not being connected despite being online which is annoying as hell.