Can't access my external drive.

[J/C]

Hey so about 30mins ago I noticed I couldn't access my external harddrive, I looked on task manager and this is what I saw:

 

 

(also I checked resource monitor and found this process, its also using around 500MB of ram)

 

What is COM surrogate?

Also this external drive is partitioned into two, Games and as a "ALT" drive for backups.

This is what it looks like in windows explorer:

It seems to switch names from the original "ALT" name to "Local Disk", also this issue occurred on my games partition first then switched to the alt partition, I've done virus checks nothing so far. Whats going on? Help would really be appreciated. 

 

Also when I try accessing it, I get denied:

 

 

 

 

EDIT: Now I can access ALT, but can't access games... (just switched again)

Edited December 26, 2015 by J/C

[Ivam50]

could be a system glitch did you try to plug it in another computer?

[J/C]

could be a system glitch did you try to plug it in another computer?

works on my other pc, but still doesn't work on mine. Also I can hear it working, its being used by something but I'm not sure. (the COM task goes away then comes back)

[Ivam50]

works on my other pc, but still doesn't work on mine. Also I can hear it working, its being used by something but I'm not sure. (the COM task goes away then comes back)

did you try the usb port you plugged it in? if you warranty expired on the external hard drive try(at your own risk) opening it and pluging it in through SATA as an internal HDD. Also go to https://gyazo.com/a3a88e056a4f85bc2a1d6c0ea4fca450

to manage and click on disk management and check it there.

sorry for the late reply was on vacation.

[J/C]

did you try the usb port you plugged it in? if you warranty expired on the external hard drive try(at your own risk) opening it and pluging it in through SATA as an internal HDD. Also go to https://gyazo.com/a3a88e056a4f85bc2a1d6c0ea4fca450

to manage and click on disk management and check it there.

sorry for the late reply was on vacation.

All good, and I used Seatools (its a seagate drive) and got errors I'll be using the warranty most likely. It looks like there was a process that kept starting, and it forced it to run chkdsk on it over and over. 

[Ivam50]

All good, and I used Seatools (its a seagate drive) and got errors I'll be using the warranty most likely. It looks like there was a process that kept starting, and it forced it to run chkdsk on it over and over. 

I would suggest copying you files somewhere else