I am using a 2 terabyte 'external' drive for backups. I was using a docking station but to drag and drop all the files to it was looking like forever to get things done. So I took it out of the ...

You must have a short in the plug. Just exactly which plug are you refering to? On the computer? Do you have only one? If you have one that still works you might have to get a hub and only use it. Or ...