Disk Toshiba 320 GB external hard takes 3 minutes to go to the top

In 2006, I bought my external hard drive Toshiba 320 GB, USB 2.0. IT worked fine until a week ago. Whenever I want to use it, I turn on with the switch at the rear of the car. The blue light turns on and then... nothing.

After a few minutes (it varies between 3 and 10) the drive suddenly makes a noise (it turns upward?) start and the drive is recognized by Windows. I use Windows XP Service Pack 3. A few times when I also turn on my second external drive it als gets automatically recognized, sometimes not.

Once it is recognized, the drive works perfectly without errors.

I looked in the event viewer of windows, without errors or warnings there. When I restart Windows, the drive is not recognized immediately (also takes about 3 minutes). I tried ending task assignment to see if there was programs 'blocking' of the reader, but it would not help.

Does anyone have any advice for me I can try more? Or perhaps had the same problem and solved somehow?

Hello!

Have you plugged the HDD on the same PC or laptop as before?
As Akuma has said, try it on another PC.

If you have another USB cable that you use to test.

Good bye

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