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Solve : External Hard Drive Problem- Linked To Windows Explorer?

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Hey everyone, I am NEW here, and I am having some trouble fixing my external hard drive.

First of all I am using: Windows Vista Home Basic, Acer Aspire 3680-2354 Laptop/Notebook, 1 GB Ram.

Whenever I PLUG in my External Hard drive into my laptop, I get two error messages:

"Windows Explorer has stopped working"

"Windows Explorer is restarting"

Then my desktop blinks with its icons on it, and then re appears. This has a continous cycle. EVERY 20 seconds or so it restarts.

Heres the catch:

I reformatted my hard drive, removed everything on there cause I backed up my files onto other computers and deleted everything on there. I re put the files back onto the hard drive, and it still does this windows explorer thing.

Another thing is whenever I do not hook up my external hard drive to the laptop, my laptop is fine, free of anything.

*This problem only happends when I hook up my external hard drive into my laptop. 


I have been trying for days to FIX this problem, but still no luck.

Please help, it will be much appreciated!!!! Does it work with other computers?Your external drive is probably infected... Quote

Does it work with other computers?

yes, it does work with another computer, I also have a Windows XP computer, and it works fine when I hook up the external there.


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Your external drive is probably infected...

thats what I was THINKING too. Is there a way to fix this?Scan it with an antivirus program. Quote
Scan it with an antivirus program.


I have tried that too. I tried it with AVG and Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware.

It didnt pick up anything.

UPDATE:


I forgot to mention that I also used "CMD" to scan it for anything unusual, with the command: sfc /scannow.


It appears that I have corrupted files in system 32, but I dont know if that affects the external hard drive or if thats related to this problem...

I thought I just throw that out there maybe its related or maybe not...


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