External Hard Drive Problem

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gokcenilktac

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I have a 120 GB external hard drive and it used to work fine. But yesterday when i plugged it in windows xp made a sound ( the one it usually makes when i plug smthng in) but when i open my computer it doesnt show it there. Actually when the device is plugged in it cannot open my computer properly. I can see the the device on safely remove hardware but cannot safely remove it because it says it is being used by another program. I can also see the disk in device manager but when i click disk management when the thing is plugged on windows cant open it, it gets stuck and i have to use windows task manager to end the program. Also when I plug in the external hard drive my computer seems to slow down and it gets much faster as soon as i plug it out. I think 90 GB of the 120 GB disk is full. And the information in it is very important for me. My hard disk is 80GB and 70 GB's of it is full. Can these have something to do with it?

Can someone out there please help me? :(
Thanks

Note: Checked it on my friends PC opened. Unlike what it did in my pc her pc opened my computer but didnt show the device. It used to show it a s two pieces on F: and G:
 
take the hard drive out of the enclosure, set the jumpers, which is by the IDE port, and set it to SLAVE. then open up you case, find the main hard drive , pput the ext. hard drive below it, connect it nup, boot the computer up, go to my computers, double clickk on it annd the information should popup .. but if its a crashed hdd it maay tell you to format it (thats not good)
 
sounds like it may have a bad controller. I would remove the drive from the external case, then pick up another external drive case and install the drive. I had to do this once. Very simple to do.
 
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