Portable Hard Drive Issue

[SMEE]

I have a pile of kids movies for my kids on my Western Digital 500GB hard drive. the hard drive works fine on my laptop. It worked fine the last time the kids wanted to watch a movie on my desktop. But today....it wont play ball at all. It fires up, but isnt being detected in My Computer....UNTIL....i pull the USB cable out, when its icon momentarily shows up in my computer. Also....it seems to freeze the system when its plugged in.

Anyone got a clue? its not been my week for all things in personal computing!

[PullMyFinger]

Sounds like a poor contact on the plug/socket, have you tried a different socket on the pc?

[buckett]

. . . . or a dodgy USB cable!

[SMEE]

Sounds like a poor contact on the plug/socket, have you tried a different socket on the pc?

yup, chopped and changed the usb ports and still no joy.

. . . . or a dodgy USB cable!

Works fine on my laptop!

[buckett]

Aye, well . . . . in that case yer desktop's fkd.

Get a new one! :baby-pram:

[SMEE]

Thing is tho, every other usb things i plug in all work fine....so it rules out non working usb ports