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Originally Posted by xpod
Possibly a silly question but have you tried the obvious step of removing of the external drive and rebooting?
When you say it crashed though what exactly happened? Did it just freeze the whole Desktop when you connected the external drive or did it give some kind of error message about not being able to mount the thing?
we`ve got umpteen external drives here for one thing or another but we`ve never had any problems with any of them on *buntu. In fact, i just plug any 2.5" Sata drive into one or two external enclosures i use just for that job.
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At the time the screen just froze and I had to hold the power button to force it to shut down and I then removed the drive and restarted the pc, tried again and it just went to the grub screen.
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Originally Posted by admars
to add to the above about external hard drive, what file system is it? If it's Fat or NTFS you may need to boot to a MS OS and then do a chkdsk on it.
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NTFS which had just been error checked in windows7 and was fine. I was going to use it in ubuntu as an external drive for that