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External HD Breaks Computer

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I recently bought a new 3TB WD MyBook Studio External HD. It's been working fine for the past month or so, but it recently completely died. The light in the front flashes constantly when it's plugged in, and the drive instantly spins up to what sounds like the highest speeds. I've run disk utility (from my mac) on it, and while the drive itself is there, the partition is greyed out. Even so, it allows me to run diagnostics on the drive (not the partition) and it says everything is fine. The oddest thing to me, however, is that when it is plugged in, my computers internal HD spins up as well and starts reading at about 20mb/s. This stops if I unplug it.


 
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