Thanks for the advice guys, looks like the drive is buggered. Seagate diagnostic tool said so. Under self test it failed, under long generic test it got to about 230 errors then failed.
Event Viewer gives me hundreds of these errors
An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk2\DR9 during...
Thanks for the link, I installed the update but it hasnt made a difference, Im thinking its probably related to the hard drive rather than my laptop as it was working fine before and now it exhibits the same problem on all 3 machines I have tested it on, all running different OSs and different...
Using USB connection on my laptop (Asus G51J) the drive doesnt have esata, I could try swapping it into one of my other enclosures to see if that works.
Also I tried it on a xp machine and got a CRC error but also noted that some files work (randomly picking files to copy and some worked others...
I have a strange problem. I have a external hard drive (seagate freeagent go) and when trying to copy files or watch videos on the drive it will copy about 2/3 of the file then just stop, explorer just freezes up and wont work properly until the hdd is disconnected. Similar thing happens with...
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