y my ext hdd once plug in, i open it, terus windows explorer stop working.. can anyone help ?

Hah, I've once killed my hdd. its thru heavy multitasking. i mean very heavy.

at that time 3 operation is going on:
1) video encoding of a 720p movie (dun remember what movie)
2) downloading thru torrent
3) my fren streaming video from my pc thru LAN

suddenly the video encoding freezes, my frens video streaming crashes, followed by a scent of freshly baked potato. i looked up to the lampu kalimantang and scream in despair. i thought my cpu or ram got fried. but the hdd was the sacrifice instead. 300+ gigs of media is gone...

hmm...interesting
i hv 1 wd 640
when transferring data...if it gets too hot it'll simply 'disconnected' from the pc
what i mean is there'll b usb notice saying new hardware is found, as if i've unplugged n replugged the usb connector
is this some sort of safety mechanism of the hdd?
happens many times to b considered s coincidence