Windows Suddenly Restarts When Plugging in External Hard Drive

This is weird, I will plug in my external hard drive by either firewire of USB and my computer suddenly restarts. I go to event viewer and here is the error message I get


"The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( m4301a ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: , Linksys Wireless-B USB Network Adapter v4.0."


I dont see what the problem could be, I noticed it listed my wireless adapter in the error report so I unplugged it for the heck of it and when a few seconds after plugging in my HD it restarts again, I can here the little sound that windows makes when you plug in a plug and play device but after that it restarts. Does anyone know what the problem could be. It isnt overheating or anything and I have run memory and hard drive test and everything shows up fine. Should I uninstall the drivers for my wireless card and try it again, I would really hate to do that unless I have to because alil of my settings would be thrown away. Thanks in advance for the help.

It is likely a driver-interaction issue. Do you have any other devices plugged into USB?

just my bluetooth mouse and my wireless adapter that is all. Now that I look at it I dont think it is my wireless adapter because I went back and looked at the logs some more and I have that same error about once a day so I dont think that is causing the restart.

Ok I found the problem, It was a program called File Secure v3.91 that I had installed. I did a search on another forum and another person was having the same problem and said to uninstall it so I did and everything is working fine now.

Great. Thanks for letting us know what the problem/fix was.