I have an Maxtor One Touch III external drive which is a very old drive and it is not doing very well, but can still be accessed. I have a new external drive as a replacement that runs like a charm. I would like to move all data from the old over to the new.
The problem is that whenever I power on the old drive, everything is then slowed down to a halt. My windows explorer is slow/not responding, google chrome cant open web pages. Everything just stops... until I turn off the old drive. Then my computer springs to life again, explorer responds instantly, web pages load faster than ever before and everything is awesome.
How can I connect the old drive to my computer without having it slowing down my computer? I assume that windows is trying to do some discovery and/or indexing of some kind that fails/stalls. I am IT person, so any solution involving low tech stuff like command prompt etc is fine.
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