Secondary HDD problem

MYELbe

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Jul 19, 2016
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So I bought a computer ( self-assembled ) a few months back. No problems until a week or 2 ago.

Problem:

While gaming on a secondary HDD installed game, game shuts down after a while and says "stopped working". When I restart the game it says directory not found. And that happens with every program installed from that moment on that Secondary internal HDD. (happens to all games on the drive)


What is happening?

The secondary HDD actually disconnects ( while gaming ), that's why I can't open anything anymore, but the HDD is still showed on "My computer". However when I "RESTART" the computer, it's no longer shown into "my computer" or any other display that shows your HDD drives ( not in BIOS either ). So this time ( I have prove ) and I can see that it is not connected anymore... So the reason why my game crashes is because of the HDD disconnecting while gaming..


BUT

When this is happening and I "TURN OFF" the computer and turn it back "ON" ( so NOT restarting ) the secondary HDD is back again. Weird...

Actions

Already changed SATA cables and ports, my PSU is the G650M from CoolMaster and should be powerful enough :/

Is the HDD damaged? is it having a power problem? is it the MOBO?
Haven't formatted it yet and haven't yet tried it as an external Drive either. And this only happens while gaming...

PSU: G650M
HDD: WD blue 1 TB
WINDOWS 10
NVIDIA GTX970 4G
AMD FX8350
MOBO: ASUS 970 Aura pro Gaming
RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance

Suggestions?

Your time would be very appreciated, thanks in advance!

kind regards.
 
Solution
Do you have the option to try the drive with a different computer, to see if the issue still persists? If you do, that would be great, because if the same thing happens that would prove that it's the drive's fault even though nothing is detected by the tests. It could be something else that could be causing it which is not detected.
Hey there, MYELbe.

It really sounds unfortunate. :\

Good job on trying the drive out with different ports and cables. Other than that, you should backup all the important data you might have on that drive, just to be on the safe side. Once you've done this, go ahead and download DLG (Data Lifeguard) and run both tests (Quick and Extended), to see what might be wrong with the HDD: How to test a drive for problems using Data Lifeguard Diagnostics for Windows.

Please let me know how it goes.
Boogieman_WD
 
Do you have the option to try the drive with a different computer, to see if the issue still persists? If you do, that would be great, because if the same thing happens that would prove that it's the drive's fault even though nothing is detected by the tests. It could be something else that could be causing it which is not detected.
 
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