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External USB hard drive causes PC to crash?
L400ras
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A friend of mine brought his iomega ext usb drive round - plugged it in and after 20 mins my pc crashed "strange, never crashed doing nothing before" i said - "can't be my drive, works fine with me" he says. Turns out today, after accessing the drive for the first time, it causes a memory leak ie - explorer.exe grows and grows stupidly in memory usage in task manager until it slows the whole system down to a hault.
No viruses/spyware/crap on his or my machine.
Anyone out there got any suggestions?
No viruses/spyware/crap on his or my machine.
Anyone out there got any suggestions?
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