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Bobisnew

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22. October 2005 @ 17:20

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Hi I have a Dell XPS Gen. 2 laptop. Intel M 2Ghz, 1 gig ram, 256 video geForce 6800 ultra. I have a 500 gb lacie external harddrive connected to it. It freezes when their is alot of accessing to it, by this i mean if I click on the folders too quickly. I have it connected by a usb 2.0 port, this problem also persisted in my desktop. I have knew drivers installed. It freezes alot more know, like after using winamp (all my audio files are on my harddrive. I have it filled to 390gb's. What is wrong with it, and can anyone help me? Thanks

By freeze I mean the files in use by it freeze and the hard drive restarts.

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tEChniiQue

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23. October 2005 @ 20:18

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First thing I'd do is defrage the hdd. That is a lot of space an if it hasn't been done, you are bound to have it fragmented files that'd need sorting. You 390GB's needs defragmenting.
if that doesn't work...
I would return it if you still have the warranty. That's not normal. Before you know it, your drive will start to click when you access it and what-not and it may burn out.

I've made several external hdd's buy purchasing the enclosure and the hdd seperately...none bigger than 400GB but I've never experienced that at all.

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Bobisnew

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24. October 2005 @ 14:06

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Thanks alot, I'll try defragmentin, but I already tryed to check for errors and it froze at phase 4. Let me see what happens if I defrag. Also, if you wouldn't mind in recommending some good external enclosure, online or in store, or would any do the same Thanks.

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