- May 14, 2017
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A week ago today my PC blue screened, when I turned it back on I noticed that one of the Hard Drives was missing from File Explorer. I checked Disk Management and the drive was still there but unitialized.
I thought that maybe it was being written to / read from during the blue screen and so been damaged. So I tried to reinitialize it but couldn't every time it says "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."
First I swapped over it's SATA cable with another HDD in the PC so as to swap the SATA cable and the SATA port thinking one of those could be dodgy. The same HDD could still had the same issues whilst the other drive could still be read suggesting not a port / cable issue. I thought it was worth trying on another PC so I connected it to my laptop via a USB dock, same issue again.
At this point I just wrote it off as a dead drive and replaced it with a new one. However one week later a different drive (one that existed beside the broken one, not the replacement) is having the exact same problem.
Running sfc /scannow reports that "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations". So I'm all out of ideas, am I unlucky enough to lose 2 Hard Drives within a week, or is something else going on here?
I thought that maybe it was being written to / read from during the blue screen and so been damaged. So I tried to reinitialize it but couldn't every time it says "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error."
First I swapped over it's SATA cable with another HDD in the PC so as to swap the SATA cable and the SATA port thinking one of those could be dodgy. The same HDD could still had the same issues whilst the other drive could still be read suggesting not a port / cable issue. I thought it was worth trying on another PC so I connected it to my laptop via a USB dock, same issue again.
At this point I just wrote it off as a dead drive and replaced it with a new one. However one week later a different drive (one that existed beside the broken one, not the replacement) is having the exact same problem.
Running sfc /scannow reports that "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations". So I'm all out of ideas, am I unlucky enough to lose 2 Hard Drives within a week, or is something else going on here?
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