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    External Hard Drive Causes Laptop to Freeze

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by MentalyUnbalanced, Nov 14, 2007.

  1. MentalyUnbalanced

    MentalyUnbalanced Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any help here will be very appreciated. I have an I/O Magic External Hard Drive, which has done me well for the past year I've had it. It has music and media on it--no separate operating system on it. Anyways, I recently bought a HP dv9500 laptop running Vista Basic, and whenever I plug my hard drive into it everything slows down and eventually freezes. Is Vista to blame for this? Because when I plug it into my PC running XP, it runs just fine.
     
    MentalyUnbalanced, Nov 14, 2007
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    soledadaztec18 Notebook Consultant

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    its vista.. the case isn't compatible with the current drivers.. try to find an update for the case from your xp system.. and run windows update on your vista pc.. i think its a driver issue.. that seems to be the main issue with vista..
     
    soledadaztec18, Nov 15, 2007
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