I would guess powersupply or connections, as it's been mentioned earlier. The reasons for my questioning was to see if something external could be causing it. If it's reseting on it's own (with nothing but power), then the power could be dropping out. Doe the enclosure have any sort of fan? Maybe there is a cooling system…
No, not USB powered. I ran checkdisk on it over night and so far this morning it's doing great. I'm going to try and return it before I crack the case open.
Are you booting from this drive? Or are you saying the device is just reseting itself. It may be a power issue. Did you add anything to the drive lately? Try it on a different computer?
My external HDD keep's restarting on its own. (its usb, if that helps). Basically it'll load up, work for a few minutes, then reboot itself (and get stuck in a loop). Any thoughts? Someone suggested it might not be getting enough power. This problem just started recently.
My hard drive was doing that right before it was failing.. you could always take the HD out.. and plug it into the IDE cable setup of your PC see if it does the same thing. Also, is it USB powered? I dont know if they do that now a days or not, if so, your PC might not be able to handle htat much power over USB, or your…
It's not likely the HD, it's more of a power issue. Try wiggling all the connectors (wall, PSU itself, connector at drive enclosure) to see if something's broke. What kind of drive is it? Is it a Branded Product like a Seagate/Maxtor/WD etc or is it a drive in a 3rd-party enclosure? Since it's only 8 months old you don't…
sledgy, notman, homo (Ryan): Thanks for the ideas guys. I tried doing a checkdisk on the entire drive aswell. I had leave for th enight while it did that process at work so I am hoping that my HDD is still alive in the morning. I'll take some pictures of the HDD. There's no marking on it what-so-ever besides "250gb". A…