windows 10 open a hard drive "working on it"

ssmacc · 31 Jul 2015 at 16:15

Hello,

Does anyone else get a "Working On It" message when opening a large hard drive?

I have a 4TB hard drive with films on and it takes a good 60 seconds to show the contents? The green bar moves along while the display show nothing other than "Working On It"?

On Holiday · 31 Jul 2015 at 16:53

Yep, same.. Took a folder on my 3TB quite a while to load.

Danny091 · 31 Jul 2015 at 16:55

Could it be power saving settings? Or maybe it has not indexed them? (Just some things to try)

ssmacc · 31 Jul 2015 at 18:53

I assume it should only index once? Power saving options are as default, 20 mins of none use before shut down...

I'll give it day or two to settle down...thought I's see if anyone has the same issue, kinda relieved someone has (sorry!)

NightSt@lk3r · 31 Jul 2015 at 18:57

It pops up for a split second for me on large local drives but network drives are awfully slow in Windows 10, often see it for 30+ seconds when changing folders on a network drive.

[ui]ICEMAN · 31 Jul 2015 at 21:00

My 1.5Tb Samsungs, which are in a RAID 0 configuration, constantly click under Windows 10. It happened in the technical preview too, but doesn't happen in 8 or 8.1. I've disabled all the power saving features that I can, even through Intel RST and Crystaldisk, but the drives still seem to go into a power saving mode.

Every time I access a file on those drives, I get the click and a delay.

thebennyboy · 31 Jul 2015 at 23:23

Got two 3TB HDD's in RAID1 and search isn't working at all for me, always says "We are getting search ready". I also get "Working on it" a lot when trying to access my RAID drive.

Semple · 31 Jul 2015 at 23:44

I think it's the indexing, i noticed this earlier when removing some files from Dropbox, and this was only small files.

ssmacc · 9 Dec 2015 at 20:53

I still have this problem and have noticed it on another 4 PC's...it can't just be me? A folder can take over 60 seconds to display its contents (granted files with a lot of large .mkv files but still its ridicules!)

chroniclard · 9 Dec 2015 at 21:04

Never noticed any delay but my biggest movie folder has 256 movies in it, 1.3TB in size, its near instant. However thats on my server.

ssmacc · 10 Dec 2015 at 17:09

chroniclard said:
Never noticed any delay but my biggest movie folder has 256 movies in it, 1.3TB in size, its near instant. However thats on my server.

Interesting, have you (or anyone) tried a large movie folder from a USB 3 hard drive? These are painfully slow for me...

Cheers

Scougar · 10 Dec 2015 at 17:27

Yes, I see this as well. I seem to remember it only happens with my HDD and not my SSD. This never happened in 7/8/8.1.

I swear sometimes when I go to open the SSD, it says working on it, and it starts spinning up the HDD's.... !!?!?!