Windows 10: My windows file explorer crashes when I open an external hard drive.

Discus and support My windows file explorer crashes when I open an external hard drive. in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; Hello everyone, I am using windows 10 and the external drive worked fine until yesterday, I didn't dropped it or anything it just suddenly stopped... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/TheRealMightyPenguin, Nov 24, 2020.

  1. My windows file explorer crashes when I open an external hard drive.


    Hello everyone, I am using windows 10 and the external drive worked fine until yesterday, I didn't dropped it or anything it just suddenly stopped working on my laptop, it just crashes the file explorer, sometimes even the whole PC.

    Some information that will probably be needed.

    The laptop works with other external hard drives just fine.

    The hard drive still works on my other PC.

    Thanks for your time in advance.

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    /u/TheRealMightyPenguin, Nov 24, 2020
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  2. Zero Ice Win User

    Windows Explorer crashes whenever I open my external HDD or thumb drive in explorer..

    Windows Explorer crashes whenever I open my external HDD or thumb drive in explorer..

    So, I open up My Computer, open my F Drive and boom: "Windows Explorer has encountered a problem and must close". It is really annoying! I am fine everywhere else in explorer, but something just screws up when I try the external HDD (USB) or my thumb drive.

    Can anyone help?
     
    Zero Ice, Nov 24, 2020
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  3. Remon Ont Win User
    External Hard Drive

    Hi John,

    We suggest that you try the troubleshooting steps below:

    • Open your External Hard Drive file in File Explorer.
    • Type the name of the file you want to search on the search box and click Enter.
    The file will show up in Search Results and you will be able to move it to the correct folder.

    Let us know if you need further help.
     
    Remon Ont, Nov 24, 2020
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  4. jsmin Win User

    My windows file explorer crashes when I open an external hard drive.

    Windows Explorer crashes and thumbnails problem

    Hi, I hope you can help me.
    Windows Explorer is no longer showing thumbnails on files played by Windows Media Player. I've run cmd and regsvr32 shmedia.dll and regsvr32 shimgvw.dll. That seemed to solve the problem...but it created a different one. Now when I try to open a folder on an external hard drive it crashes. I read in an old 2008 post it was an avi file causing the problem and suggested the run cmd regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll. That solved the opening problem but recreated the thumbnail problem. Any help to achieve both functions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
     
    jsmin, Nov 24, 2020
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