I recently bought an external drive (WD My Passport) onto which I successfully backed up my PC. However, after a couple of weeks of using the drive, my PC has started to bluescreen crash. I believe that this may be related to the drive. The first couple of times this happened I restored my computer back a couple of days, and after going back a Restore Point at a time, eventually this appeared to fix it. However, the latest time it crashed (see details below), I just unplugged the drive, and rebooted, and the PC hasn't crashed.
Here are the details of the crash:
- Dump File: 120213-24226-01.dmp
- Crash Time: 02/12/2013 18:33:08
- Bug Check String: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
- Bug Check Code: 0x00000050
- Parameter 1: fffff8a0`128d0000
- Parameter 2: 00000000`00000001
- Parameter 3: fffff880`01a48d39
- Parameter 4: 00000000`00000000
- Caused By Driver: ntoskrnl.exe
- Caused By Address: ntoskrnl.exe+75bc0
- File Description: NT Kernel & System
- Product Name: Microsoft Windows Operating System
- Company: Microsoft Corporation
- File Version: 6.1.7601.18247 (win7sp1_gdr.130828-1532)
- Processor: x64
- Crash Address: ntoskrnl.exe+75bc0
- Full Path: C:\Windows\Minidump\120213-24226-01.dmp
- Processors Count: 2
- Major Version: 15
- Minor Version: 7601
- Dump File Size: 320,401
- Dump File Time: 02/12/2013 18:33:46
Please let me know if you need any further details/specifics. Do you think that the drive is the potential cause? If so, could you suggest how I might be able to potentially fix it, without the PC crashing again?
Many thanks.
Alan
