Ubuntu 14 Installed on External Hard Drive Random Crashes

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I have installed Ubuntu 14 onto my external hard drive and everything initially works great. However after an apparently random amount of time (although this has happened every time I have been running Ubuntu on the hard drive) everything completely freezes and I have to do a hard restart.

Can anyone suggest any reasons why this might be happening or how I can go about fixing this?

possible duplicate of What should I do when Ubuntu freezes? or How to check my HDD's for defects — Eliah Kagan, Aug 07 '14 at 10:16

Firefly09 · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-09T21:00:06.617

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I have fixed the problem by opening the NVIDIA X Server Settings application and changing the graphics profile from NVIDIA to Intel, but thanks for the other answers.

edited Aug 09 '14 at 21:00

answered Aug 09 '14 at 16:02

Firefly09

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Try [edit]ing it to make the thank you at the end? – Tim Aug 09 '14 at 20:50

Ubuntu 14 Installed on External Hard Drive Random Crashes

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