WD Elemnts external drive

I’ve a WD Elemnts external drive of 1TB it stops responding as soon as i click on a folder present in it…

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Have you ran a diagnostic test in order to confirm if your hard drive is not working properly? You can use WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostics for this purpose.

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