Odd fault with Western Digital Black 1TB drive

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chaosrapture

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Hey guys,

I've just had a really strange fault occur regarding my secondary HDD.

Was playing League of Legends, then all of a sudden, with no warning, my PC hung dead. No blue screen, just the PC became unresponsive.

I restarted the PC, upon logging back in, I realized that my internal backup drive didn't appear under my computer. I checked Disk management, and the drive was not located there either. Rebooted machine, checked under the BIOS and again the HDD could not be located.

I took the HDD out of the PC and connected it to an external HDD adapter I took out of an old caddy to test. Worked first time, with no faults what so ever. Plugged the HDD back into the PC, and again it worked fine.

Is this an indication that the HDD is on its way out? Just seems like a really odd failure if this is the case.

Thanks in advance.
 
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Dogsnake
How old is the drive? Truth is there is no way to tell what is going on. My bottom line rule when dealing with HD's is when they start to deviate, replace them. Could have been a bad connection and when you disconnected and reconnected it was fixed. Could be the disc electronics are going bad and it is in the intermittent stage. Since you were in mid game could be the drive is going bad and reacted to a heat condition ( another intermittent possibility). Could be Windows had a brain fart and lost the recognition of the drive. I have seen this many times where Windows stops seeing a device and reacquires it upon reboot or re-installation. The thing is no way to tell at this point if you got failure down the road or many more years of...
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How old is the drive? Truth is there is no way to tell what is going on. My bottom line rule when dealing with HD's is when they start to deviate, replace them. Could have been a bad connection and when you disconnected and reconnected it was fixed. Could be the disc electronics are going bad and it is in the intermittent stage. Since you were in mid game could be the drive is going bad and reacted to a heat condition ( another intermittent possibility). Could be Windows had a brain fart and lost the recognition of the drive. I have seen this many times where Windows stops seeing a device and reacquires it upon reboot or re-installation. The thing is no way to tell at this point if you got failure down the road or many more years of trouble free use. WD has a great warranty. If it fails within 5 years (I think that is right) they will send you a replacement (reconditioned not new most of the time). But that does not help the lost data. They will not do this till the drive fails, yours still works. Sorry to not have been more definite but yours is a one time event with multiple possible causes. GL
 
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