External Drive crashes PC

MadPaxx said:

I have this 1,5 terabyte external HDD

I had to reinstall windows and Now every time i try to use it and plug it in it crashes the computer or my PC just freezes

I was hop das any one know any software to delete or format the HDD during windows boot ?

Before getting into windows ?
Because with windows it wont work

thanks

In such situations I use a bootable GPARTED LiveCD [a version of Linux] or a bootable Linux LiveDVD such as Linux Mint with GPARTED as one of its programs to manage/delete/create partitions on a drive. It usually recognizes USB-attached drives. It can format several types with NTFS being the better for Windows.

MadPaxx said:

I have this 1,5 terabyte external HDD

I had to reinstall windows and Now every time i try to use it and plug it in it crashes the computer or my PC just freezes

Open Device Manager. Click on View > Show hidden devices. Find your external HDD in the list under Disk drives. Right-click on it and select Uninstall.

Now try plugging it in, does it still crash Windows?

If it does, have you got another PC you could try it in? The drive may have developed a fault.

As Berton says, you may be able to access the drive by booting from something else. It doesn't have to be Linux, you could try booting to Advanced Start up from Settings, from a Recovery drive or from an install USB. You could then use Diskpart from the Command Prompt to format the HDD.

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