External Hard Drive freezes Windows but works fine on Linux(

I have this Toshiba external hard disk. Gave it to a friend to use for a couple of days, he brought it back and I couldn't use it no more. It either doesn't show up at all in My Computer and Disk Management or it shows up but when I attempt to open, it freezes Windows Explorer. I opened Device Manager to try and uninstall and re-install but doing that only renders all my USB ports inactive (all USBs I connect doesn't work). I then have to restart the computer to get the ports to work again. I've tried the hard disk on different computers and it's always the same story everywhere.