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> For a second, I get scared. [...] Where are my movies? I have a similar situation in Win8.1. I have an external hard drive that sometimes go to sleep. When I
by eCa 11y ago
> For a second, I get scared. [...] Where are my movies?
I have a similar situation in Win8.1. I have an external hard drive that sometimes go to sleep. When I wake it up by trying to view its contents in Explorer, Windows shows a friendly "No files in this folder" message while the disk spins up.
It should know that it doesn't know that.
- StuffMaster 11y agoLol, that's probably where in the past explorer would just lock up. They probably just converted a spinlock into "return null". I remember sometimes XP would do a full, multi-minute lockup (including keyboard) when the C drive was trying to recover a bad block.
- frik 11y agoWin7 shows a green progress bar in the address bar.
- Coincoin 11y agoOh yes! The hard drive spin up delay always scares the shit out of me. I always think the drive crashed.