Yesterday I made the mistake of trying to run the Sims 3 on my gaming build. Not because my build can't run it, but because the game's programming is a nightmare. In an effort to optimize the game's performance I created a batch file that deleted a few files and then launched the game. The game crashed several times while starting up. Then the computer started slowing down until finally my A drive was no longer coming up in My Computer. (The A drive is an internal storage drive where all my programs and files are).
Currently: If I unplug the SATA Seagate 1TB, windows boots perfectly fast from the SSD. If I plug in the Seagate while the computer is booted, it crashes. If I boot the computer with both the SSD and the HDD connected the boot process is painfully slow. When I get to my desktop, explorer takes about 2-5min to appear. Luckily (I think) my hard drive once again appears under "My Computer" as A (what it was). Problem is, it is inaccessible and doesn't even have a memory bar beneath it like my C does.
Any attempt at right-clicking "My Computer" to access manage causes explorer.exe to crash. Any attempt to access drive A directly causes explorer.exe to crash. Opening start menu and searching for "cmd" to open "Computer Management" from there also causes explorer to crash.
How can I diagnose and repair my hard drive? I'm convinced its a superficial issue, but I can't troubleshoot or diagnose it because it keeps crashing my computer.
Maybe Start->Search uses indexing to look through it and that causes the crash. If I could stop that indexing then Start-> Search would just search C and I'd be able to access "Computer Management" without failure.
UPDATE: By opening My Computer then going into the C drive, I was able to isolate my search for "Computer Management" to C. This worked. Disk Management now shows that my A drive is healthy, but is of the RAW format. This can't be the case because yesterday I was using it and it was NTFS. How do I fix this?
Currently: If I unplug the SATA Seagate 1TB, windows boots perfectly fast from the SSD. If I plug in the Seagate while the computer is booted, it crashes. If I boot the computer with both the SSD and the HDD connected the boot process is painfully slow. When I get to my desktop, explorer takes about 2-5min to appear. Luckily (I think) my hard drive once again appears under "My Computer" as A (what it was). Problem is, it is inaccessible and doesn't even have a memory bar beneath it like my C does.
Any attempt at right-clicking "My Computer" to access manage causes explorer.exe to crash. Any attempt to access drive A directly causes explorer.exe to crash. Opening start menu and searching for "cmd" to open "Computer Management" from there also causes explorer to crash.
How can I diagnose and repair my hard drive? I'm convinced its a superficial issue, but I can't troubleshoot or diagnose it because it keeps crashing my computer.
Maybe Start->Search uses indexing to look through it and that causes the crash. If I could stop that indexing then Start-> Search would just search C and I'd be able to access "Computer Management" without failure.
UPDATE: By opening My Computer then going into the C drive, I was able to isolate my search for "Computer Management" to C. This worked. Disk Management now shows that my A drive is healthy, but is of the RAW format. This can't be the case because yesterday I was using it and it was NTFS. How do I fix this?
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