Check if your external hard drive is malfunctioning and explore possible solutions.
Check if your external hard drive is malfunctioning and explore possible solutions.
The issue began with utorrent reporting a data error due to cyclic redundancy check failures. Running chkdsk took a long time and eventually reached stage 3. After that, the system reported it couldn't read security descriptors. When connected to your PC, it showed 100% active time in Task Manager but wasn't listed in This PC. It briefly worked once before displaying "can't open does not exist." What should you do next?
Disconnected the device, accessed disk management, reconnected it.
It worked perfectly after plugging it in again, but any changes made in Windows Explorer—like right-clicking—caused the program to crash. It also doesn’t appear in the CrystalDiskInfo list. Editing its properties in Disk Management caused the issue too. The drive shows as a 16GB partition with random files because it was previously a Windows drive about five years ago, and I haven’t removed Windows or made any other changes.