OS crashing because of external hdd

[Punker]

Guys my os is crashing bcz of my external hdd. Whenever i explore my external drive after 3 seconds explorer crashed error comes. Problem is with hdd or with os? Please reply.

TIA

Punker

 

[RoBoGhOsT]

seems like some virus is there on hdd , try disabling autorun then try the external drive

 

[Punker]

autorun is disabled n before shutting down my pc it was working fine but when i restarted it,it started giving this pbl....

 

[_abhay_]

Are there any video files on the HDD? Sometimes Explorer crashes while making thumbnails of Video files if crappy codecs are installed. Do yo have any codec package installed? Try disable showing of thumbnails from advanced system settings.

 

[diabloReigns]

Could not agree more. this problem often used to bug me in the past.

Are there any video files on the HDD? Sometimes Explorer crashes while making thumbnails of Video files if crappy codecs are installed. Do yo have any codec package installed? Try disable showing of thumbnails from advanced system settings.

 

[Striker10]

Or you can manually remove those handlers(thumbnail readers, extra right-click context items) by installing ShellEXView(ShellExView - Shell Extension Manager For Windows) and disabling the problem item