External drive delay write fail

[sabanknight]

I have an external harddrive on the drive I had unpacked a backup of windows. ever since the drive has extraordanary trouble loading. Specificly it has trouble loading during the autoload with i386. In addition on any computer I plug it into it says there is a delay write fail I am having trouble removing or opening any files on the external any one have any sugesstions

 

[LookinAround]

You need give specifics about your computer make/model, version windows, service pack level, etc

And what specifics about your drive? and what type of external connection??

(altho delay write fail is often indicative of hardware failures looming i.e. get what you need off of it NOW) but specifics still needed