Well, for what it's worth I bought a 500GB Iomega hard drive about a week ago.
It's used on a new PC (a few months old) running Windows Vista.
Following the usual advice about clicking on the "Safely remove" icon before unplugging the thing, Windows instantly crashed (blue screen) and the PC rebooted itself.
Now my recently installed Norton Internet Security 2009 won't start properly and I get a mesage from Norton saying it needs to be uninstalled and re-installed.....
Now, whether that's because Windows went looking for a solution to the crash has anything to do with it I don't know.
Of course this might not have anything to do with the External HD. Who knows? Poxy computers.
EDIT: And interestingly, I followed Symantec's instructions to the letter to re-install my product and it came up with an "unrecoverable error"!! Solved this by re-installing from my CD rather than their suggested download. Why do these things never work for me at home? All day I work with control systems and computers, and everything's usually fine. I must have static fingers.
Last edited by Blues&twos; 27th November 2009 at 22:01.