Secondary HDD is acting really bad... Please Help?

Ok, so this is going to be a little hard to explain but I will try my best..

I got a secondary HDD in my PC, it had been working fine for about 2 months.
BUT lately when I try to say, transfer a file from my main drive to the secondary
and then transfer that same file back to my main it will not let me.

If I try to play a game from my secondary drive, it will not work.

What happens while trying to transfer a file from my secondary to my main, is the loading
bar will come up like normal, but then the bar just stops and goes red and doesnt move.
But lets say this "file" is a MP3.... It wont transfer it, but I can still play it from my main
drives Windows Media Player.

This also kind of happens when trying to open a game from my secondary. The game
will pop up, or for certain games a launcher will pop up, and it will go to load the game as
normal.... but will stop someway through loading, basically doing the same thing as when
trying to transfer a file (loading bar stops and doesnt move) or SOMETIMES the game will just stop responding while loading, and just close with no warning, no error messages... nothing

If anyone could help thatd be awesome.

~For Technical Purposes here is my PC Specs~

CPU- AMD A8 5600k
GPU- GTX 750 1gb
RAM- 6gb DDR3 1333Mhz
MOBO- BIOSTAR A55ML2
Windows- Win 7 Home
HDD 1- Sata 120gb
HDD 2- Sata 800gb
 
Solution
Three ideas come to mind: Your HDD is dying, or you don't have NTFS rights to the files. It could also be where you are trying to copy the file to. Anything in My Documents is good, but Windows will try to protect certain areas (C:|Windows for example).

Was the HDD formatted in another machine and moved to this one? If so, it kept the rights for teh user on that machine. You can try deleting the HDD partitions and then reformatting in the new machine.

You can check the HDD health by finding Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Diagnostics (not the transfer utility). I think the latest is V1.25, but download the latest Windows version. First see if it reads the smart data correctly. If so, do a Quick Test. If that passes, you can do an...

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Three ideas come to mind: Your HDD is dying, or you don't have NTFS rights to the files. It could also be where you are trying to copy the file to. Anything in My Documents is good, but Windows will try to protect certain areas (C:|Windows for example).

Was the HDD formatted in another machine and moved to this one? If so, it kept the rights for teh user on that machine. You can try deleting the HDD partitions and then reformatting in the new machine.

You can check the HDD health by finding Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Diagnostics (not the transfer utility). I think the latest is V1.25, but download the latest Windows version. First see if it reads the smart data correctly. If so, do a Quick Test. If that passes, you can do an Extended Test if you are ok with losing your data. It will take a while, over 9-14 hours for a 1-2TB HDD. If that works, I would overwrite with all Zeros which also takes a long time. But it should return the HDD to a clean state where Windows can reformat it.
 
Solution
Thank you both for the response... And your both probly right, the HDD did come another computer, my last computer... My mobo died and when I got this new computer I wanted more storage cuz I was running out of game space so I hooked this one up. It has 2 seperate drives in the secondary... a E drive and a D drive, I deleted EVERYTHING (wiped with CC Cleaner...) off the D drive which was the one that had all the last PC's Windows files and all that, the E drive I used for extra storage for games and such there are no system files on the E. The weird part is I can transfer files to the secondary but not transfer them back to the main... Now if I already wiped the drive that had all the windows files on it, do I still need to reformat? I have about 500gb worth of data on my secondary and only 20gb free on my main lol so backing up is kind of impossible lol.
 

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