[SOLVED] Toshiba external drive not letting my boot drive well boot?

[Mashuplol]

So I have a toshiba canvio basics 1tb and paired with a Samsung 860 EVO 500gb and obviously use the SSD as my boot drive, about a month ago a turned on my PC and it was stuck in a bootloop. So I as anybody would do Install windows again but it was horribly slow so I restarted my PC and then I wouldnt boot AGAIN I was pretty bummed out not knowing what to do so I thought it was a boot priority issue ( dumb of me not to check that first) but I didnt find any issues either way. I tried running my SSD my istelf without my external drive. Boots straight up without any issues except for that I cannot access the drive I cannot check the properties of the drive and it will not let me use disk management all I see is the drive in my File Explorer.
(Is this some common issue or is my hard drive gone mad)

 

[DSzymborski]

It's quite likely the external drive is failing. Reading the drives is part of the boot process, so if a drive can't properly be read by Windows, it's going to hold things up.

 

[Turtle Rig]

It's quite likely the external drive is failing. Reading the drives is part of the boot process, so if a drive can't properly be read by Windows, it's going to hold things up.

Well said; You can try to run a CrystalDiskInfo on the external and the SSD and see what their health status is. 👨🏽‍🦲💯

 

[Mashuplol]

https://imgur.com/wOvaSJf

( Im done) Thanks I am going to try test it with CrystalDiskInfo
Is this a failed or almost failed harddrive? (sorry I couldnt get the whole results besides that my allocated sector counts are also "caution"

 

[fzabkar]

CrystalDiskInfo can save your results in text format (File -> Save text). Your drive is very sick in any case. You may be able to clone it with HDDSuperClone (under Linux).

 

[Mashuplol]

I would clone it with HDDSuperClone but the stuff on it was my steam library and a few projects on premiere I tried running Crystal Disk Mark but as soon as I chose the hardrive the thing crashes so Im guessing im super screwed.