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Internal drives slow or inaccessible from Devices and Drives screen.
I've tried to find answers to this issue using Google and this forum's search feature. I'm sure this must have happened to others but I can't find any information. It's possible I haven't used the correct search terms as I'm unsure how to describe the issue properly. I'll try to explain.
I have 9 hard-drives in my PC. A couple of small SSDs and a few HDDs. On the Devices and Drives screen I have the display set to Tiles, so you get the red or blue bars under the drives according to how full they are. Sometimes, when I go to this screen one of the drives listed will have just the drive name and no other information about the drive showing. At this time the long bar at the top, next to and left of the Search box will show a green loading bar and show that the PC is trying to access the drive in question. Sorry I don't know the correct name for this part of the UI - it the area that shows 'This PC' or your computer's name and where you can manually enter a location on the PC to navigate to. The weird thing is it can and does happen to any of the 9 drives I have installed. Even the newer ones. All these drives are internally connected. It appears to be completely random too. When I restart the PC the issue sometimes has gone away and won't happen for a few hours or half a day or even a day. Then the same issue will occur randomly on a different drive.
It almost looks like a really sneaky virus but I have MalwareByes 3 and Comodo Firewall installed and I've run various on and offline scans. All show zero infection.
Next time it happens I will try and screenshot it to post here. Usually when this happens though it ends up causing a crash and requires a reboot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.