- Feb 5, 2016
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As the long title says I just purchased a second HDD to go along with my SSD (System drive) and HDD (Storage drive). SSD is a Samsung 840 Pro. First HDD is a WD Caviar Black 1TB and the new one is WD Blue 1TB.
The OS is on the SSD but I have the folders/locations like Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, and Movies all on the storage drive. This way all the core programs are on the SSD. The new HDD is to store all my games on and that's all that's on there for now, I have my Steam and Origin Libraries on it.
Everything was working perfectly fine before installing the new hard drive. Now I'm having issues with programs not opening with the exception being Chrome. iTunes, Steam, Origin etc all don't open but their processes run. When this happens the computer also doesn't shut down as it hangs at Logging Off so I'm forced to hold down the power button until it shuts down.
Now the strange thing is this happens and if I keep restarting it, eventually all works as normal. However the next time I start up it goes back to the same problem with programs not opening and then hanging at Logging Off.
I've noticed two things that happen when I'm having the errors that may help find out the problem. On the problem start ups, if I open Computer to look at the drives it all appears fine, and then I click on a folder such as Documents and then back to the Computer page, the two optical drive slots, CD Rom and BD Rom both turn into blank white pages. The other thing that happens is when I go to the disk management page I the endless search for virtual disks problem.
I'm going to try and unplug my new HDD and plug it back in and maybe try it in another motherboard slot. I've already tried the normal solutions to the program not opening like running Malwarebytes to search for problems and scanned for disk errors but to no avail. What I'm confused about is why is this happening randomly and working eventually if I keep restarting. I didn't touch the other two drives when I installed the new one so why would those be affected? As I said all the .exe's are on the SSD so I'm not sure why they're suddenly having problems.
I know this is a long post but any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Tried switching SATA ports for my new HDD and checked all other connections and it didn't help.
The OS is on the SSD but I have the folders/locations like Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, and Movies all on the storage drive. This way all the core programs are on the SSD. The new HDD is to store all my games on and that's all that's on there for now, I have my Steam and Origin Libraries on it.
Everything was working perfectly fine before installing the new hard drive. Now I'm having issues with programs not opening with the exception being Chrome. iTunes, Steam, Origin etc all don't open but their processes run. When this happens the computer also doesn't shut down as it hangs at Logging Off so I'm forced to hold down the power button until it shuts down.
Now the strange thing is this happens and if I keep restarting it, eventually all works as normal. However the next time I start up it goes back to the same problem with programs not opening and then hanging at Logging Off.
I've noticed two things that happen when I'm having the errors that may help find out the problem. On the problem start ups, if I open Computer to look at the drives it all appears fine, and then I click on a folder such as Documents and then back to the Computer page, the two optical drive slots, CD Rom and BD Rom both turn into blank white pages. The other thing that happens is when I go to the disk management page I the endless search for virtual disks problem.
I'm going to try and unplug my new HDD and plug it back in and maybe try it in another motherboard slot. I've already tried the normal solutions to the program not opening like running Malwarebytes to search for problems and scanned for disk errors but to no avail. What I'm confused about is why is this happening randomly and working eventually if I keep restarting. I didn't touch the other two drives when I installed the new one so why would those be affected? As I said all the .exe's are on the SSD so I'm not sure why they're suddenly having problems.
I know this is a long post but any help would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: Tried switching SATA ports for my new HDD and checked all other connections and it didn't help.
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