Maxtor

[Phill]

hey i got a maxtor hard drive and ive had it for 3 years now its starting to play up every time a plug my harddrive into my computer it frezzes,it took 26mins just to open. once i double clicked it it freezes but when i quickly pull the cable out all my folder pop up then disapear. i scanne it for virsus with 2 diffrent virsus programs and came up with nothing. i format it then it work fine but after 4 days its playing up again . i gave it to my friend who was on photoshop at the time and it froze now every time he goes to phtoshop print it frezzes. but on my other friends lap top it worked fine. (these are school issued laptops) ca some 1 please help me

 

[smegain]

hey i got a maxtor hard drive and ive had it for 3 years now its starting to play up every time a plug my harddrive into my computer it frezzes,it took 26mins just to open. once i double clicked it it freezes but when i quickly pull the cable out all my folder pop up then disapear. i scanne it for virsus with 2 diffrent virsus programs and came up with nothing. i format it then it work fine but after 4 days its playing up again . i gave it to my friend who was on photoshop at the time and it froze now every time he goes to phtoshop print it frezzes. but on my other friends lap top it worked fine. (these are school issued laptops) ca some 1 please help me

1>buy your own laptop so you can do what you want with it
2>buy a new drive and recover your data befor the old drive completly crashes
3> stop letting othere ppl use your equipment as you dont know what thy do with it or what thy may be infected with that infects your equipment thus causing you problems/ or causing them problems with your infected equipment
4>defrag said hd and trash asmuch junk from it so the accses times go down note the 137 gig limit of windows 32 bit systems "thus partition"

 

[evongugg]

Run hard disk diagnostics.
Test your memory with memtest86+.

 

[evongugg]

Check for trojans, spyware and other nasties.