So i picked up a new external hard drive today and started copying over around 300gb of files, this ran for about an hour and a half no problem, then i left the computer to do some things and when i came back everything was completely locked up with 9 minutes left on the file transfer, task manager wouldnt open and i couldnt close any programs.
At this point i did some googling and was told to open cmd and kill tasks through there, that didnt work either.
The mouse cursor was perfectly responsive the whole time, and most windows were too until i clicked on them, after around 20 minutes i managed to get around 2 programs closed. I was very apprehensive of hard rebooting the pc since i didnt want to corrupt any of the drives and i wasnt sure if that was a possibility.
After this i tried logging off and force closing programs that way, and it appeared to work, but then got stuck on the log off screen for about another 20 minutes, at this point i figured there wasnt anything i could do so i just hard reset the pc.
On reboot everything appeared normal until i logged onto windows i was met with a black screen and a cursor, nothing else, i left to google this new problem and when i came back everything was working perfectly. The file transfer appears to have stopped itself correctly, around 30gb of files were not copied but the rest seem to be functional.
I am on windows 7 with an internal hdd and ssd, windows is installed on the ssd, the file transfer was going between two external hard drives, both western digital.
My question is what happened? and should i be worried? Is there anything else i should do, or is everything better now?
At this point i did some googling and was told to open cmd and kill tasks through there, that didnt work either.
The mouse cursor was perfectly responsive the whole time, and most windows were too until i clicked on them, after around 20 minutes i managed to get around 2 programs closed. I was very apprehensive of hard rebooting the pc since i didnt want to corrupt any of the drives and i wasnt sure if that was a possibility.
After this i tried logging off and force closing programs that way, and it appeared to work, but then got stuck on the log off screen for about another 20 minutes, at this point i figured there wasnt anything i could do so i just hard reset the pc.
On reboot everything appeared normal until i logged onto windows i was met with a black screen and a cursor, nothing else, i left to google this new problem and when i came back everything was working perfectly. The file transfer appears to have stopped itself correctly, around 30gb of files were not copied but the rest seem to be functional.
I am on windows 7 with an internal hdd and ssd, windows is installed on the ssd, the file transfer was going between two external hard drives, both western digital.
My question is what happened? and should i be worried? Is there anything else i should do, or is everything better now?
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