external hard drive after downloading

Question

Last night I started a rather large torrent download onto my external hard drive, and I left it to finish overnight.

And this morning, uTorrent said the file was finished (but gave me an error: "Error: cannot find the file specified"), and now my computer can't read my hard drive at all. I've tried logging off and restarting my computer, but it still won't read anymore. It was working fine last night.

I am using a Samsung external hard drive that contains 8 disks with about 18GB each, so it shows up as 8 drives in "My Computer" (drives G - N).

There's a little light on my hard drive that glows blue if it's working and glows red if not. Now when i plug the USB into it, it glows blue for half a second, and then turns red and I can hear a noise that sounds like it is trying to read each drive. And after about half a minute to a minute, it glows blue again, but it still does not appear in the "My Computer" folder.

When it is blue again, the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon appears in the task tray in the bottom right corner, but instead of listing all 8 drives (e.g. "Safely remove [so-and-so name] - G:\, H:\, I:\, J:\, K:\, L:\, M:\, N:\"), now it just says "Safely remove USB Mass Storage Device" instead.

Also, for the past few weeks, the USB port on the hard drive feels like it has been getting looser and looser, although I don't think thats whats wrong, because the light still works when i plug the USB in.

Oh, and I've also tried uninstalling the driver that runs it and then reinstalling it; still doesn't work. D:

Answer 1

Sounds like a loose connection on your ext hard drive USB. Try moving it around a little while it's plugged in to find the right point where a good connection allows it to communicate with the PC. If that works, you'll need to replace the USB plug with a good one. Good luck!

Answer 2

sure, downloading (saving some thing from the internet) on on your ext. HD bypasses your inner annoying force and could keep area on your pc. Now who's the fool who advised you that saving to ext. HD damages it? you could't injury a annoying force in basic terms like that. an outbreak would corrupt annoying force yet no longer injury it bodily.

Answer 3

the torrent has it's own download folder usually in the documents and the folder is called download so look in there