Externall HDD causes hanging on shutdown

Hi

My computer intermittently hangs on shutdown. The only indication of what might be wrong is that when hanging the led on the external HDD continually flashes.

I've left it for hours and it stays flashing and the computer won't complete shutdown until it stops.

Thanks for any help

Uli

 

Hi Major Attitude

Thanks for your reply. I did as you suggested and apparently the disk is fine. The scan did however stick for a long time (about 30mins) at one point and was set to fix bad sectors.

What do you say to waiting to see if this has fixed the problem?

Thanks

Uli

 

Hi

Uli again....

I forgot to add I'm using windows 7 pro 64bit on a Dell Studio XPS laptop.

Thanks

Uli

 

Hi

I have cleaned the drive using ccleaner and defragged it using Mydefrag.

My computer has not stalled since though the problem was intermittent to begin with.

I guess it's just a question of waiting?

Thanks

Uli

 

Will do. Thanks loads for all your help.

Uli

 

Hi Major Attitude

I think I misunderstood your instructions and defragged the wrong drive.

I have since defragged my system drive (never defreagged till then - new) since when the problem has gone.

Thanks for your help, it's nice to have my laptop working again.

Uli