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Hi everyone,

I know, I've seen like a dozen other posts with a similar problem, none seem to exactly replicate this problem.

Recently bought a new alienware laptop, as well as a 275 Crucial SSD for it. Installed SSD and installed windows onto it, formatted the 1TB HDD. Everything was fine and good. However I installed my steam stuff onto the HDD as well as a couple other games (world of tanks and world of warships, respectively). Basically after installing they will run flawlessly- for about a day. Trying to boot the next day results in either
a) nothing
b) an error message about not being able to locate something or other
I've tried reinstalling them, running as admin, but the same thing occurs.

I know it's an HDD problem because I tried reinstalling one of the games onto the SSD and it has no problems. I'd rather not install everything onto the ssd.
I'm not a computer builder and I don't work as a computer tech or anything- basically I'm saying this is beyond the scope of what I know how to do.

I would appreciate any help.
Thanks everyone
 
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D_Know_WD
What did the error message say?
The writing zeros process would wipe the drive completely. With a simple reformat, the data is still over there. Yet, I believe it will not hurt to reformat the drive first and see if this will make any change.

Thread on zero writing: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1711997/software-wipe-hdds.html

As for whether there's something wrong with your partitions, we can't really be sure. As the chkdsk process picked up something, then there could be something wrong.

D_Know_WD :)
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D_Know_WD

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Hi there Ralroost,

Unfortunately, there could be something wrong with your HDD.
It may be a good idea to back up the data stored on it until you sort this out.

After that, you can test it with some of these tools: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility
See if there are any pending/reallocated and uncorrectable sectors in the SMART report. It would be nice to provide a screenshot of it as well. Just upload it to an image hosting website and post the link.

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD :)

 
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D_Know_WD

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Well, it seems that there are no bad sectors on the drive.

Have you run chkdsk on it? It will not hurt to do so.

If the issue persists, then I think you have a couple of options:
- Contact the manufacturer's Support on that.
- Back up all the data stored on the drive, use some third party tool that can write zeros on the drive (fills in 0 value in each sector). After that, you can repartition, reformat it -> see if the issue persists.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)

 
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Ralroost

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Yes, it initially found an error, which it then corrected...

A third party program for writing zeroes? I feel like im in over my head
Might partitioning be a part of my problem?

Thanks
 
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D_Know_WD

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What did the error message say?
The writing zeros process would wipe the drive completely. With a simple reformat, the data is still over there. Yet, I believe it will not hurt to reformat the drive first and see if this will make any change.

Thread on zero writing: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1711997/software-wipe-hdds.html

As for whether there's something wrong with your partitions, we can't really be sure. As the chkdsk process picked up something, then there could be something wrong.

D_Know_WD :)
 
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