I ... never thought this before , but he seems to have got better with age . Another happiness for today : I thought there might be some sort of conflict between my new laptop and my external drive , as it kept randomly disconnecting . So we tried taking everything off and reformatting it , but it was still messed up . It has no problems on my old laptop , so I knew it was n't the drive itself that was bad .

Question: What may be causing the drive to keep disconnecting ?
Answer: It is n't interacting well with different hardware .The drive has problems .None of the above choices .It requires me to use different hardware .