Unexpected Reboot

[SmallTeddy]

Hi!
Please excuse my bad english, I am from Austria, Europe and english is not my first language. I couldn't find a good german support forum

Here's my problem: After plugging in my external WD hard drivemy computer rebooted unexpectedly. I don't know if it was the external hdd's fault. After the reboot I noticed a weird error message in the event log. It says: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x1000008e (0xc0000005, 0x80536943, 0xba46288c, 0x00000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\Mini082310-01.dmp.

Event-ID: 1001, Event Source: Save Dump

What does this mean? It only occured once (*knocks on wood*) after plugging in my external hard drive, but the 2nd time I plugged it in it seemed to work fine.

The HDD is an external Western Digital WDE1U5000N and I use Windows XP (SP3) Media Center Edition. I don't know what to do. I use the HDD for backups and it made some problems a few weeks ago. My 2nd computer does NOT recognize the drive. It just spins up, fails to get recognized and spins down again. When I tried to defragment it, it just made a stupid clicking sound.

My computer is 3 years old, this is the first BSOD (or Save Dump error message) I received.
Can someone help me, please? Could the error be related to the external HDD?

God bless.

 

[linkin]

If the drive isn't detecting on your other computer, I'd say the drive may be faulty. I, however, am no expert on hard drives...

 

[lucasbytegenius]

Clicking, you said? Are you sure it's getting enough juice (er, sorry, American slang for electricity)? If that's not am issue, I'll bet the drive is dead.

 

[johnb35]

If its clicking, thats not a very good sign. Most likely your drive is bad.

 

[2048Megabytes]

I have heard the clicking of death from a hard drive before. Hopefully you had an extra copy of all the data you value. Hard drive recovery is expensive.