I recently switched to qbittorrent from utorrent because I heard it was better. The extra features were great and it was running more smoothly, except it kept refusing to shut down (after I right-clicked on the icon and clicked Exit), even Task Manager couldn't kill it. I think the problem is because it kept incessantly rechecking every single torrent? Sometimes it would grind my computer to a halt so I was forced to "choke" my PC to death by holding the power button. Also, the power company were doing some maintenance work so there were a few incidents without power (my laptop's battery is dead so it instantly shuts off when there's no power).

My PC can detect the drive as Local Disk K: but I cannot open it. I cannot right-click the drive to run Error Check because right-clicking just makes Windows Explorer stuck. I've tried right-clicking and then just leaving it overnight and then in the morning there was an error message, "Parameter is incorrect."

I've tried CHKDSK (in Safe Mode) and the result was either nothing happens, or I receive the error message, "Cannot open volume for direct access." The same thing happens with CHKNTFS. I've read that I need to kill any services that prevents me from accessing the drive? But I don't know which service is causing this.

I've tried using AOMEI Partition Manager to scan the drive, but then it got stuck when it tried to lock the drive, so I uninstalled AOMEI. I've also uninstalled qbittorrent.

At first Windows partition manager could detect the drive, but when I finally had the idea to change the Letter of the drive, partition manager cannot open properly unless I unplug the drive. When I replug the drive, partition manager doesn't detect it. Western Digital's Drive Utilities app doesn't detect the drive either. I cannot properly reboot my PC unless I unplug the drive.

Device Manager says the drive is working fine. I've tried updating the driver but Device Manager says there's no better driver. I've tried uninstalling the drive, but the same problem persists.

Impeccable timing, huh? My drive has been dead for a week but when I finally decided to ask for help online, the Crowdstrike meltdown happens.

Whats the model? Had an similar issue with my WD passport 1TB drive where it would freeze the entire PC when pluged in, couldn't do anything with it. Ended up paying a data recovery service to rescue my data.

My Passport 5TB.

High chances it just gave up. Those WD external HDD's are total garbadge, but their desktop ones aren't.