Hard drive taking ages to open a folder

[jb7]

My hard drive is showing several signs of imminent death. For example. opening a folder takes 10 seconds, and opening a video takes so long that I click the 'X'

I have all the data backed up, so it's not an issue in that sense

However, crystaldiskinfo and hard drive sentinel both claim the drive is in good health - shouldn't they be reporting errors?

 

[Rroff]

Could be the drive failing - but if you are on Windows 10 it isn't completely unknown for explorer to have issues like that in 10.

 

[Maundie]

Wife had same issue with Windows 10, when she tried to create a folder in Documents the machine would just lock up, applied the known registry fix thats advised and it resolved the issue for a couple of weeks but then it came back.

I ended up putting her a SSD in and complete Windows re-install and touch wood it's been fine for 2 weeks.

edit: Forgot to say this was a 3 month old laptop and the Hdd reported no errors, it has since been put in a caddy and has been performing flawlessly since so assume it's Windows 10 that has the issue.