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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
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I bought two similar Toshiba drives about a year ago and they
can sometimes be a pain in the rear end. You HAVE to use a short usb cable (the one it comes with) with them or they wont start sometimes or they might stop when transfering data.
I personally have not had any problems with the 4 WD external drives I´ve owned but I hear they have included some some crappy backup software in a non-user accessible partition that cant be erased on the new drives.
Maybe you could find one of the "old" WD drives or a Seagate drive.