Windows Explorer Crash

[flojo]

I'm pretty sure your drive is remounting for some reason or another (power lose, faulty driver, bad polling, etc.). This can happen so fast that you don't notice. On Linux when this happens the drive may or may not remount (depending on fstab, systemd, etc.), but on Windows it always remounts (I *think*).

You're lucky explorer.exe crashes because explore used to hang forever without an explicit kill from the user or kernel. I read they changed it years ago so explorer crashes in this event but I never had the "privilege" to experience such behavior.

Long ago (and I'm sure still today) certain programs like Adobe Photoshop would refuse to accept paths that were using Windows so-called "UNC", ie. \\server\path\to\working\photos\ but you could use mklink /d to mount the link as a local directory to side-step/trick Adobe's ignorance. Sadly, if the server/mount went bye-bye then explorer would eventually enter a frozen state. Normally that isn't a big deal, but if Photoshop tried to open a file for writing, such as you pressing CTRL+S to save your work, then Photoshop would just crash out and you would probably loose work. Things certainly have that Windows feel when trying to save your work is the very thing that causes you to loose work :-/

[Watcherine]

I updated my post where I suggested it may have been drive-related, which it is not, since my other BD-RW drives do the same thing.

However, you suggested this may possibly be a kernel issue, which falls in line with my update as well; since I mentioned there may be a Windows, or even a BIOS motherboard update that addresses said issue. Unfortunately, I have been unable to update my Gigabyte GA-AX370 Gaming K7 Rev. 1 mobo beyond version F3 of the BIOS for unknown reasons.

[Billycar11]

I updated my post where I suggested it may have been drive-related, which it is not, since my other BD-RW drives do the same thing.

However, you suggested this may possibly be a kernel issue, which falls in line with my update as well; since I mentioned there may be a Windows, or even a BIOS motherboard update that addresses said issue. Unfortunately, I have been unable to update my Gigabyte GA-AX370 Gaming K7 Rev. 1 mobo beyond version F3 of the BIOS for unknown reasons.

i have seen older ryzen systems do weird stuff with sata drive and that and threadripper cant play or rip cds over sata amd messed up some sata stuff back then dont see it on the new stuff

lot of people would report after my lg flasher ran their pc would freeze or bluescreen if they did not reboot like my instructions said to