So I bought this external drive a little over a year ago, and it's been working just fine up until two days ago, when all of a sudden it would randomly start slowing down during transfers, not finishing transfers etc... but in general it worked as well as it normally had.
Very recently, just a few hours ago, my computer started acting up and everything went unresponsive; I had to force shut down my computer (HP Pavilion with Vista x64) and repair it upon startup. Then it did a system restore and all went well, until I tried to open my external drive (FreeAgent Go 500gb.)
Explorer would freeze every single time I tried to open My Computer, until I unplugged my drive that is. Then I tried again and the same thing would happen again, and again.
I tried to open my drive on another computer (W7 x64) and My Computer did not freeze on this PC. Sometimes it would pop up as Drive F, and sometimes it recognized that my particular model of external drive was plugged in, but it would never open the drive and -only sometimes- would prompt me to reformat the disk, which is not really an option unless I can recover the data beforehand. I also attempted to use SeaTools, but each attempt at detecting the disk failed, except for the one time it detected it, but would not scan it.
I'm thinking the data is recoverable because it still recognizes the drive, albeit at random. Anybody have a solution?
