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Question posted by judzdueck on June 11th, 2010

Explorer Shuts Down When I Open 1 Tb Drive

I am using my 1 TB on a dell vostro was working fine for a while now when ever want to open the drive Explorer freezes and just closes. I tried it on my acer mini but it is working fine.

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