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When i open my computer and view my external harddrive windows explorer crashes. However, If I type a shortcut (e.g. d:\films) to the harddrive then that folder opens ok. I can play media files from it. I just can't view it as D:\. Any ideas why this might be?
Does the same happen if you use 'my computer' and click on the external drive there?
Open a command prompt, type 'd:\' (then 'cd \' if it doesn't drop you into the root directory) to switch to the drive and then use dir to get a directory listing - is there anything in the root that looks strange?
Yup if I use my computer and click on the external drive then it opens the folder D:\ and then windows explorer crashes.
I opened the command prompt and used dir but there is nothing that looks strange. There is only 6 sub directories and nothing else.
Hmm, I've changed the view to "view details" and now it works fine without crashing. However if I change back to view thumbnails then it crashes. Anybody have any ideas?
Can you view thumbnails on any other drives? Try deleting thumbs.db from the root of the drive and see what happens.
It could be (though this maybe too far out) that explorer when in icon view on the external drive is trying to load the icons in too large a size ie trying to open many large files at once puts much strain on your system and can lead to a crash.
You can set the default icon size in TweakUI (free from MS, worth having even if it dosn't work for this problem);
1: open TweakUI,
2: expand the explorer branch, select thumbnails,
3: change the size to 32 (this is the same size as standard icons, so explorer should load as an icon, rather than a picture).
Hope this helps.
I can view thumbnails on other drives fine. I've tried deleteing thumbs.db but no change :(
I'll try the tweakui option see if that helps. I was wondering if perhaps it was a file somewhere that was corrupted, could that be it? My only problem then is how to search through 500gb of movies to find which one is the broken one.