I was trying to save

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I was trying to save a file from laptop to my USB external HD, Due to big files it went to a delay write failure, my external HD suddenly stopped working. Whenever I plug in to any computer it just detect for awhile then it would seize the detection process. During the short period of detection sometimes the autoplay from WIN XP would show up some file indexing then its back to nothing. My external HD is a 80GB seagate, Im running WIN XP SP2.