Maxtor Mini External Hard Drive slows or crashes my macbook

I recently bought a Maxtor Mini external hard drive since I work with a number of large files, mostly CS3. Anytime I plug in my external hard drive, my computer slows down (trying to save a jpg, takes 15 minutes, copying a 20MB file from the external to the internal hard drive takes around 20 minutes). Anytime I open ANY application on the macbook, while the Maxtor is plugged in, the macbook crashes.
When I bought the Maxtor, I formatted it for my Mac, with the CD that came with the external hard drive.
Any suggestions?!
thanks!

You shouldn't need any CD provided by the manufacturer to format the drive. I can't see any particular format type causing that problem though. If you don't have anything you need on the drive now... try formatting it using Disk Utility (in your Applications/Utilities folder).
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Try that first and see what happens. Like I said... I don't really see any particular format causing the problem you are having... but since we don't know what the CD you used did, it's best to start clean.
Do you know if you actually installed anything on your computer from the CD?

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