Duh....... It says your hardware or Internet is faulty. The USB drive isn't on the Internet ...that leaves faulty hardware. Sounds like your drive or the driver's interface is failing. Next time you see your pictures, you better grab them. Time for s...
Simply FORMAT the external drive, and use windows explorer to copy the file to it. The foillow the install instruction coming with Vista and install that, with all hardware drivers, reconnect external drive, copy files back (remnembering to reinstall...
Any one would work, they're all mostly compatible these days if you have USB or Firewire, although might I suggest to buy a hard drive enclosure and a hard drive, its a device which you can switch out the hard drive so if you buy a hard drive you can...