External Harddrive making MB slow?

[Cindynjgirl79]

everytime i plug in my ex-hd to my MB it starts running really slow? this has never happened before. just today. any reason it's doing this?

 

[mad jew]

How is the drive connected? If you open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder, is there anything there that's either using a lot of resources or that is coloured red (signifying it's hanging)? Have you tried verifying and possibly repairing the drive with Disk Utility?

 

[banjomamo]

it may be trying to index the drive for spotlight search. you could tell spotlight to ignore that drive in the system prefs.