Soldato
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On Sunday my computer started having some issues:
-computer takes a very long time to boot (at a guess 5-10min)
- computer is very slow
- none of the windows tools work e.g
-disk management wont launch it stuck loading,
- disk cleanup wont launch
- windows defender cant complete a scan
- some things do work, e.g file explorer and firefox
In file explorer i can see that E drive is recognised as present, but it is not being read properly, e.g unlike my other HD’s it doesnt show the size of the drive/ how much space is free etc.
If i try to open the E drive file explorer stops working, ie it lags until it closed in task manager
Obviously there is major issues with the E drive! I am a bit surprised that it caused such widespread issues beyond not being accessible?
I have removed the E drive and the computer is back to normal.
I have tried mounting the drive in an external enclosure, and connecting via usb. The drive is still not accessible and attaching causes massive lag, e.g the mouse curser moves incredibly slowly
A few questions:
-computer takes a very long time to boot (at a guess 5-10min)
- computer is very slow
- none of the windows tools work e.g
-disk management wont launch it stuck loading,
- disk cleanup wont launch
- windows defender cant complete a scan
- some things do work, e.g file explorer and firefox
In file explorer i can see that E drive is recognised as present, but it is not being read properly, e.g unlike my other HD’s it doesnt show the size of the drive/ how much space is free etc.
If i try to open the E drive file explorer stops working, ie it lags until it closed in task manager
Obviously there is major issues with the E drive! I am a bit surprised that it caused such widespread issues beyond not being accessible?
I have removed the E drive and the computer is back to normal.
I have tried mounting the drive in an external enclosure, and connecting via usb. The drive is still not accessible and attaching causes massive lag, e.g the mouse curser moves incredibly slowly
A few questions:
- Is it likely to simply be a corrupted drive?
- Is the failure likely to have just been bad luck? My son was playing a lot of minecraft over the half term. I think it was installed on this drive. He had been using minecraft mods. Whilst I would dearly like to blame him, I assume there won't be a causal link?
- I don't know what was on the drive! I suspect it was just steam and gamepass games, in which case it is not a major issue as they can be downloaded again. However, for peace of mind I would like to know what was on there.
- Does windows keep a log of folders/ files that I could access?
- My external drive enclosure idea clearly didn't work - any other suggestions for how I could try and access this drive, or should I just give up on it?