I've got exactly the same problem as DarkMatt although I haven't tried booting in safe mode. I'd been using Buffalo USB hard drives for some time with no problem. They were permanently plugged in and worked fine. A few months ago I bought a new 2TB drive and soon after my PC crashed and rebooted, etc.
My PC now crashes frequently whenever I plug in a drive (old or new). The weird thing is that it sometimes works for hours, sometimes crashes after a few minutes and sometimes reboots continuously until I disconnect the drive.
The only things that have changed since I bought the new drive were the installation of the drive software which includes turbo usb, turbo pc etc and a new graphics card after my old one died.
I find it interesting why you would recommend a reinstall of the graphics driver. Why that particularly?
I don't think there's anything physically wrong with the drives or that a virus is involved. Seems to me its corrupt drivers or bad drive software.
My main fear is crashing the PC so much that I corrupt windows to the point of no return.
But Im sure I have exactly the same problem
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