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Hi all,
Having a bit of a problem and, while I was just going to clean install the OS, I thought I'd ask and see if I was missing something.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H55 57.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XN-WIFI Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard (Purchased For $0.00)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Superclocked Video Card (Purchased For $0.00)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case (Purchased For $0.00)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $0.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-08 10:46 EST-0500
I received a bunch of components from a friend which I'm either repurposing or disposing of. Included within the lot was around 10 laptop HDDs. They were not secured in any way (they were actually just rolling around among some cables in a giant rubbermaid container.
Anyway, so I connected some of them individually with an external enclosure to my desktop.
The plan was to simply go through them, ensure there was nothing important on them & format. Didn't get a chance to health check (or format for that matter).
When they were attached, explorer.exe started to crash. File explorer windows would go "not responding" and then explorer.exe would fully crash - no taskbar, no start etc.
Anyway, a forced removal of the driver & either a reboot or restart of explorer.exe via task manager appeared to get everything up & running again as expected.
Unfortunately, I have had a couple of explorer.exe crashes since (with no external drive attached).
Most of these drives did have OS's on them, which I'm starting to think has been the cause.
The one drive I did manage to attempt to format failed & disk management then showed the drive as RAW.
Everything was working just fine until I attached the drives, but it appears to have caused some (relatively minor) lasting issues. I've just moved to the new case, so ensured temperatures were not the problem, and all components are fine.
So, I guess my question is: Is there anything I can do to avoid having to complete a clean install of my OS to fix the issue? I don't mind performing a clean install, I don't store too much on my SSD - really just the OS & updates, but if I can avoid it, even better!
Having a bit of a problem and, while I was just going to clean install the OS, I thought I'd ask and see if I was missing something.
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant
CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00)
CPU Cooler: Corsair H55 57.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler (Purchased For $0.00)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A88XN-WIFI Mini ITX FM2+ Motherboard (Purchased For $0.00)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (Purchased For $0.00)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Superclocked Video Card (Purchased For $0.00)
Case: Cooler Master Elite 110 Mini ITX Tower Case (Purchased For $0.00)
Power Supply: EVGA 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply (Purchased For $0.00)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home OEM (64-bit) (Purchased For $0.00)
Total: $0.00
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-08 10:46 EST-0500
I received a bunch of components from a friend which I'm either repurposing or disposing of. Included within the lot was around 10 laptop HDDs. They were not secured in any way (they were actually just rolling around among some cables in a giant rubbermaid container.
Anyway, so I connected some of them individually with an external enclosure to my desktop.
The plan was to simply go through them, ensure there was nothing important on them & format. Didn't get a chance to health check (or format for that matter).
When they were attached, explorer.exe started to crash. File explorer windows would go "not responding" and then explorer.exe would fully crash - no taskbar, no start etc.
Anyway, a forced removal of the driver & either a reboot or restart of explorer.exe via task manager appeared to get everything up & running again as expected.
Unfortunately, I have had a couple of explorer.exe crashes since (with no external drive attached).
Most of these drives did have OS's on them, which I'm starting to think has been the cause.
The one drive I did manage to attempt to format failed & disk management then showed the drive as RAW.
Everything was working just fine until I attached the drives, but it appears to have caused some (relatively minor) lasting issues. I've just moved to the new case, so ensured temperatures were not the problem, and all components are fine.
So, I guess my question is: Is there anything I can do to avoid having to complete a clean install of my OS to fix the issue? I don't mind performing a clean install, I don't store too much on my SSD - really just the OS & updates, but if I can avoid it, even better!
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