How about some info.
What hardware are you running, what computer motherboard, processors, how does the external drive connect? When it doesn't come up what happens, where does it stop?
IF you plug the drive in while it is running does it work?
Hi the problem is I have windows XP professional ? and I have western digital 120 GB hard disk external ? the problem is that I can't restart or shutdown the pc ? what is the problem?

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