And no, the drive is not faulty. This is a very peculiar problem. Please read on.
Schenario - I have Windows 10 installed on a Nvme SSD and also have 4 internal HDD in my PC. One of the drives contains my office data, a 2 TB Seagate drive with 543 GB free space. I have named this drive "My Data" and its volume letter is "D".
The Problem - After booting, I open "My Computer". It opens OK and shows ALL drives. Then I try opening "D". It opens the drive window but no contents visible. And Explorer hangs. Mouse & keyboards are working but cannot access any other drives or desktop icons.
After repeated attempts to close that window by clicking on "X" button (upper right corner), it does close finally. Then I open other drives. They open OK. Again I try opening "D" and it too opens OK! Every time after a fresh boot..
I thought cables may be faulty so interchanged cables. Same problem with only "D" drive. Then installed all new cables, but same problem. Then I installed new HDD and copied all data from old "My Data" to new Toshiba 2TB drive. Drive letters changed. But same problem persists with this brand new HDD. If I open other drives first one by one and then open this ""My Data" it opens OK. Thereafter no problem accessing this drive until next boot. The drives (both the new & old) are not slowed down or anything. They are as fast as before when they do open.
This problem started two months back after I formatted my C drive and installed latest Windows 10. Now I have installed 2H21 upgrade to Windows. Even now, the same problem. All hard drives use NTFS file system.
Is there any solution except a re-install of Windows?
I have this build-
Intel Core i9 9900K @ 3.60GHz
RAM 32.0GB
Motherboard - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO
Graphics card - 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (MSI)
Windows installed on NVMe drive Samsung SSD EVO Plus 1 TB
4 other HDD, 3 of Seagate and 1 of Toshiba
Schenario - I have Windows 10 installed on a Nvme SSD and also have 4 internal HDD in my PC. One of the drives contains my office data, a 2 TB Seagate drive with 543 GB free space. I have named this drive "My Data" and its volume letter is "D".
The Problem - After booting, I open "My Computer". It opens OK and shows ALL drives. Then I try opening "D". It opens the drive window but no contents visible. And Explorer hangs. Mouse & keyboards are working but cannot access any other drives or desktop icons.
After repeated attempts to close that window by clicking on "X" button (upper right corner), it does close finally. Then I open other drives. They open OK. Again I try opening "D" and it too opens OK! Every time after a fresh boot..
I thought cables may be faulty so interchanged cables. Same problem with only "D" drive. Then installed all new cables, but same problem. Then I installed new HDD and copied all data from old "My Data" to new Toshiba 2TB drive. Drive letters changed. But same problem persists with this brand new HDD. If I open other drives first one by one and then open this ""My Data" it opens OK. Thereafter no problem accessing this drive until next boot. The drives (both the new & old) are not slowed down or anything. They are as fast as before when they do open.
This problem started two months back after I formatted my C drive and installed latest Windows 10. Now I have installed 2H21 upgrade to Windows. Even now, the same problem. All hard drives use NTFS file system.
Is there any solution except a re-install of Windows?
I have this build-
Intel Core i9 9900K @ 3.60GHz
RAM 32.0GB
Motherboard - ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO
Graphics card - 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (MSI)
Windows installed on NVMe drive Samsung SSD EVO Plus 1 TB
4 other HDD, 3 of Seagate and 1 of Toshiba
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