Windows Explorer crashes when I try to look in my HDD!

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sonic0491

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My storage drive which I hold my movies, music and shows for some reason always crashes since this morning. When I want to go look in Windows Explorer crashes (not Internet Explorer). "Windows Explorer has stopped working" "...trying to find a solution... restarting Explorer". It doesn't reset my computer which I am thankful for, it just closes the window. It is only with this hard drive and I seem to be able to run things FROM the hard drive (such as running videos already on stream through TVersity, music in iTunes), I just cant 'explore' the hard drive myself. It is really annoying because I need to be able to sort all the stuff out. Such as placing new torrents in my stream files and editing them and such. Please help and thanks so much.
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 x64
CPU
Intel E8400 Dual Core 3GHz
Motherboard
Asus P5K SE/EPU
Memory
2x 1GB Kingston DDR2 800MHz / 2x 1GB Transcend DDR2 800MHz
Graphics Card(s)
HIS ATI 5770
Sound Card
on board
Monitor(s) Displays
Benq G2220HD
Hard Drives
2x Seagate 500GB SATA 2 3GB/S 32MB cache
PSU
Vantec ION2 600W
Case
Super Flower SF 1000 BK
sonic0491 said:
My storage drive which I hold my movies, music and shows for some reason always crashes since this morning. When I want to go look in Windows Explorer crashes (not Internet Explorer). "Windows Explorer has stopped working" "...trying to find a solution... restarting Explorer". It doesn't reset my computer which I am thankful for, it just closes the window. It is only with this hard drive and I seem to be able to run things FROM the hard drive (such as running videos already on stream through TVersity, music in iTunes), I just cant 'explore' the hard drive myself. It is really annoying because I need to be able to sort all the stuff out. Such as placing new torrents in my stream files and editing them and such. Please help and thanks so much.
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Hi sonic and welcome

we need to do some digging to find the cause
can you type eventvwr in search? go to the windows logs>application tab.

You need to look for critical errors (they have red in the left column) that say app hang, app crash, etc.

when you find them use the built in snipping tool (type snipping in search) to make a screen shot of them and the attachment icon (shaped like a paper clip) in the reply form to upload them

See pics


Ken
 

My Computer

Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
HP Pavillion dv-7 1005 Tx
OS
Win 8 Release candidate 8400
CPU
[email protected]
Memory
4 gigs
Graphics Card(s)
Nvidia 9600M
Sound Card
HD built-in
Monitor(s) Displays
17" Wxga
Screen Resolution
1440x900
Cooling
none
Internet Speed
45Mb down 5Mb up
I hope this helps. There is a long list however with a few errors. I would assume most are just from me trying to open the damn HDD. Thanks for all your help.
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 x64
CPU
Intel E8400 Dual Core 3GHz
Motherboard
Asus P5K SE/EPU
Memory
2x 1GB Kingston DDR2 800MHz / 2x 1GB Transcend DDR2 800MHz
Graphics Card(s)
HIS ATI 5770
Sound Card
on board
Monitor(s) Displays
Benq G2220HD
Hard Drives
2x Seagate 500GB SATA 2 3GB/S 32MB cache
PSU
Vantec ION2 600W
Case
Super Flower SF 1000 BK
I really wish you could choose Highest level AND time and date, it would help alot xD
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 x64
CPU
Intel E8400 Dual Core 3GHz
Motherboard
Asus P5K SE/EPU
Memory
2x 1GB Kingston DDR2 800MHz / 2x 1GB Transcend DDR2 800MHz
Graphics Card(s)
HIS ATI 5770
Sound Card
on board
Monitor(s) Displays
Benq G2220HD
Hard Drives
2x Seagate 500GB SATA 2 3GB/S 32MB cache
PSU
Vantec ION2 600W
Case
Super Flower SF 1000 BK
It is definitely the "Application Error" I just tried again, noting the time of trying to open/crash.
 

My Computer

OS
Windows 7 x64
CPU
Intel E8400 Dual Core 3GHz
Motherboard
Asus P5K SE/EPU
Memory
2x 1GB Kingston DDR2 800MHz / 2x 1GB Transcend DDR2 800MHz
Graphics Card(s)
HIS ATI 5770
Sound Card
on board
Monitor(s) Displays
Benq G2220HD
Hard Drives
2x Seagate 500GB SATA 2 3GB/S 32MB cache
PSU
Vantec ION2 600W
Case
Super Flower SF 1000 BK
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