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Today started with a major crash. When I booted up first all was fine (except windows telling me that I was not connected when I was- in the boot up screen). But anyways

Overnight I had put in a external hard drive I have - 2tb.

Apparently this was not indexed as it was out of the picture when I instsalled WIndows 10.

Win 10 took ages to index. Explorer said "this is not respond, and a green bar showed up incating the job was 95% done, then hanging.

Because of this I had a major crash. I tgried to access oither programs with no luck. Nuthin was moving!

Both screens go black except for a mouse.

I did a hard restart.

Logging in was OK, then it hung. Again a black screen with a mouse.

At first I could not work it out, but then I guessed, the hard drive (which does work!) was being indexed before Win 10 desktop would appear. I pulled it out of the system (USB2) and Windows grinded back up to the desktop.

I checked out the hard disk, its sound. plugging it back in I find that windows has indexed the root folders but when I click on them, things begin to go to road block.

I think eventually I shall be able to index this drive, but it is NOT easy


Z

Win 11 64, Asus Rog Strix z390 mobo, 64 gig RAM, 8700k