Windows 10: Freezing external hard drives

I've been trying to transfer files to several external hard drives of mine in order to clear up space on my HDD, however every time I do begin a transfer, it will only do so for about 2-3 seconds, and then the transfer rate will drop rapidly until it is 0mb/s. It remains stuck there until windows notifies me that something went wrong during the transfer process. Has anyone else had the same issue/know how to remedy?

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External hard drive is not working after upgrade to Windows 10

Original title: windows 10

Dear Sir

I have upgrade my windows 8.1 to windows 10 I face a problem with my external hard drive it was working perfect on windows 8.1 but after I upgrade to windows 10 the external hard drive is not working it show me the drive for 10 second after that my
laptop get freeze I have to remove the external hard drive to use my laptop, I hope to find a solution to use my external hard drive from your experience.

Yours

Muataz AL-Reyami

 

Recycle Bin becomes unusable when External Hard Drive is plugged in

I regularly back up my computer to an external hard drive. I back up the Program Files, Program Files (x86), and Users folders. The other day I interrupted the backup and ever since then, whenever I plug in an external hard drive, I cannot click or right-click
on the recycle bin without Windows (Win 10) freezing. The freeze is only temporary, as when I click anywhere on screen the desktop resets itself, but I still cannot access the recycle bin. When an external hard drive is not plugged in, the OS works as normal.

What could be causing this problem, and does anyone have a suggestion to solve this problem?

 

Gonna need a WHOLE lot more info... update your sys specs with drives, and tell HOW you are transferring files. What type of ext drives? Details..... What "something" went wrong?

 

Well that's just it, I dont know exactly what went wrong. It's just a simple message that windows gives me after about 10 or so minutes of it being frozen, only after that allowing me to access the drive and cancel the transfer. I have a WD My Passport and My Book, both USB 3.0, that I am trying to do transfers to by dragging and dropping from my download folder to the drive folder. I've even tried zipping the files thinking that maybe that would help having them be compressed. I don't believe it is my hard drive itself because it is actually performing phenomenally under windows 10 and I can move, write, compress, etc on that drive freely. Just updated more of my system specs, hope that helps

 

Only thing that comes to mind right now is that drag 'n drop sometimes will get choked. Repetitive drag/drop quickly can result in a high thread count in explorer. Try simple copy/paste or cut/paste, single or in multiples. Another alternative is to use something other than explorer, like Tera-copy (freebie).

 

Yeah, try the copy-paste and then delete the original file. And try to do it by smaller groups of files rather than 1 big chunk.

 

That seems to have done it. Thank you. Still, wish something as simple as that wouldn't choke up the OS =/

 

Yeah, what he said! *chuckle Explorer does get freaky when it has to many things at the same time. Here's a decent explanation of explorer doing too many things asynchronously. Asynchronous vs synchronous execution, what does it really mean? - Stack Overflow

 

Glad to hear I could help (and bad-robot from up north) and you got it fixed. Just a quirk of the OS. All OS's have their little slippery spots! *chuckle