Situation: My most important external Hard drive is crashing my computers. It had my time machine backups and random files stored. I've tried it on my iMac and Macbook Pro. It may be worth noting I installed Parallels recently.
Does anyone have any ideas or solutions? I was about to open it up. The fact that it shuts the computers down makes me think it isn't necessarily a read/write failure?
Specs:
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 9ZF2N5-502
iMac 3.4GHz Intel Core i7 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Software OS X 10.8.5 (12F2560)
Tried so far: -Using the closest port to the power. -Changing USB cables