kabeza <kbgar80@gmail.com> wrote:

> Seems that USB Harddrives are quite problematic. I have this Trekstor
> (german brand i guess since im in germany right now) 160GB External
> Harddrive plugged via USB2,0 with a built-in USB2,0 hub since april
> 2005 and it has worked fine until today. I was copying some files from
> my laptop to the external harddrive and suddenly I got a windows
> message saying something like writing error or something like that.
> After that, my laptop doesn´t recognize the Harddrive but it does
> recognize the USB Hub. All the LEDs are on, the internal e-motor from
> the harddrive seems to be ok (it still sounds like it works at least).

> Any idea of what might have happened? Recently I have had problems
> with the USB ports of the laptop (sometimes it doesn´t recognize some
> other devices like mouse, webcam, cellphone, usb stick , etc.) is it
> possible that there´s a connection between this and that??

Yes, very likely indeed.

> If not, is it possible to take the harddrive out of the casing
> (I bought it ready to use with factorymade casing), and
> use it in a external casing to see if it still works?

Yes, and to have it as an internal drive to check if it works too.

Or just plug it into another PC with USB too.