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    How do I speed up accessing an external Hard drive

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by PCHO, Mar 8, 2009.

  1. PCHO

    PCHO Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey everyone,

    I had an older desktop that I upgraded to Vista Home Premium stop loading into windows on me for some reason. I bought an external case for the hard drive because I got a new laptop and don't think that I will use the old desktop anymore, but I wanted the data off the old hard drive. The notebook is running XP Pro. When I plug it in, the drive starts to recognize with the notification bubbles in the bottom right corner, but after a few of those, the system seems to lock up. The only way I can get it to "unfreeze" is to turn the drive off. I guess the system is accessing the drive and loading so that I can go into my computer to pull things, but I let it run for a few minutes and it still wouldn't show up in My Computer.

    Am I doing something wrong? If not, how can I speed up accessing the drive to pull files if I can. Thanks.
     
    PCHO, Mar 8, 2009
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  2. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I am not sure what is happening...

    I don't think its about accessing the drive.

    What do the notification "bubbles" tell you?
     
    DetlevCM, Mar 8, 2009
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  3. PCHO

    PCHO Notebook Enthusiast

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    Just that...

    "A new device connected"

    "A new device detected"

    "X Drive detected"

    Things like that that normally pop up when you connect a new device.
     
    PCHO, Mar 8, 2009
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  4. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    OK.

    And then the laptop freezes??

    If it does I suspect it runs some "autorun" command... not sure how to stop this...
     
    DetlevCM, Mar 8, 2009
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  5. qhn

    qhn Notebook User

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    My wild guess is that your drive fails (comatose to dead)!

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Mar 8, 2009
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  6. Nankuru

    Nankuru Notebook Evangelist

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    Can you try attachin gthe drive to another machine and/or using another drive on this computer?
     
    Nankuru, Mar 8, 2009
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