A strange situation

[mikhailmetatron]

Hey everyone i just finished building my new rig today. Im still using an old hdd that already has windows on it from my previous rig. So I plugged in my Maxtor One Touch 4 500GB external hdd and it worked fine for a while, but after deleting all the old drivers and installing the new ones it stopped working. Its dead doesnt even show up in bios, I even tried plugging it into my lappy and still nothing. so i look up info on my particular maxtor series and it seems like its a problem with a lot of people so i figured ill just call maxtor tmr and see what they can do about it. but now a few hours later i plugged in my SanDisk usb flash drive...it doesnt work, its dead as well...i know this cuz i just tried it on my roommates comp and nothin happens.

anyone have any idea what might be happenin? this doesnt seem like a coincidence that both my external hdd and my flash drive die in the same day. my usb ports dont mess up my usb optical mouse so iono whats goin on.

thanks in advance for your replies for my strange situation