Windows 7 explorer crashing trying to read external hard disk
- by Mario De Schaepmeester
I have a 1TB Western Digital hard drive which is almost full and last time I tried to plug it into my laptop, I got a Windows dialog saying "this hard drive needs to be formatted". I did not panic because I have experienced things like this before and I know it's often solved by simply re-inserting the drive.
Now however, whenever I plug it in and…