Explorer crashes when I view my one hardrive.

When ever I view my one storage drive, explorer will display the pointer with the hour glass, pause, crash, and reload the desktop and icons, closing out any explorer windows open. Why? I can see the drive and navigate through out it fine in dos.

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When ever I view my one storage drive, explorer will display the pointer with the hour glass, pause, crash, and reload the desktop and icons, closing out any explorer windows open.
 
Why?
 
I can see the drive and navigate through out it fine in dos. I even ran a scandisc on the whole thing and nothing came up. What could be happening? How can it be fixed? I know this is kind of a veague question, but I'm thinking maybe windows looks at a file to display information about the drive which is causing it to crash. I probibly delete this file and have windows make a new one from scratch, possibly eradicating the problem.
 
Any input?
 
Thanks.
 
-Windows XP Pro, sp1 w/ all the updates.

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I quicly went from thumbnail view to folder detailed and it worked.
 
what the hell?

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I had that very same problem and seriously it was a pain. It might just be a one off thing.

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fast and furiously changing it from Thumbnail to detailed view worked.
 
* drunk. sorry.