Diagnosing an inaccessible Ext USB Drive

[ziethus]

Using my Maxtor One Touch III as storage on vacation has caught up to me.. I used it on public computers and now it seems to be locked.. the last time I had access to files it would not let me delete files.. now it seems to be looping and just eating system resources after drivers are detected and installed..

Plugging it into any PC detects and loads drivers normally (blinking indicating accessing drive in proper manner), then it blinks constantly (using dual USB power cord) and the computer becomes very slow using Windows until the drive is unplugged. Once the drive is unplugged the drive letter temporarily pops up in My Computer of course to disappear seconds later.

Any suggestions?

There seems to be a new process running "rundll32.exe" by "user" not "system" in Task Manager.. once that is Ended the drive stops blinking, drivers unload, and computer goes back to normal functioning state..

After waiting a long period of time the drive did show up in My Computer, but double clicking gives the following message:

"E:\ is not accessible. Error performing inpage operation."

Please help me figure out what is preventing access to the drive!

This drive was used to store a lot of photos and memories of my trip

 

[Harvey]

Boot into Safe Mode, and scan it for viruses and spyware.

If it hangs when you try that, and it's not too hard to disassemble it, you'll find a standard ATA drive inside. If you can remove it, you could try the same scan without the USB interface.