Windows 10: Is there malware in my flash drive or laptop or is this a regular issue? How can I delete...

I recently plugged a USB flash drive into my laptop. After attempting to create a new folder in this flash drive, the file manager crashed. After checking the folder after the file manager crashed, the folder was filled with 42.9 GB of files the drive has a max capacity of 16 GB, this should not be possible with unchangeable properties attempting to interact with them at all, whether it be through the command prompt or software like WinRAR and 7-zip, the error "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect." always appears. To save itself from getting fixed, when using

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External Drive Light Flashing in Regular Pattern Continuously

Not much to find on the matter:
Why does my external hard drive light keep flashing? – idswater.com
But that made me wonder: this suggests some disk check or read happens at regular intervals. It's something a program does or the system.

So continuously regular flashing can occur if Windows optimizes the drives.
This should happen when the computer is idle. If it happens all the time then I'm not sure. The detection instructions @dalchina posted should be the way to try what reads / writes to the drive.

 

How To Transfer Documents to Upgraded Windows 10 using a USB 3.0 Flash Drive?

Hi,



Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.



I understand your concern and will assist you to resolve this issue.

I suggest you to copy all the files to a flash drive from the laptop.
You may create a new folder on your desktop and name that folder as per your choice.

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  Perform the steps to transfer the files from laptop to desktop.
  
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  Plug in the flash drive and wait for it to get detected.
  
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  Now, open the flash drive and Right Click on the files that you want to transfer and select “Copy”.
  
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  Now, open the folder on desktop and Right Click on an empty space in the folder and select “Paste”.
  
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  Similarly, you can transfer all other files.
  

As per the file size you can also use an external drive instead of a flash drive and transfer the data.



Hope this helps. If the issue remains unresolved, please get back to us and we would be happy to help.

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
Drive Where Windows is Installed is Locked: How to Unlock It