Hey, y'all!
Long time lurker, first time poster.
Before you point me away to another thread, I've searched for almost ten hours on every computer forum website in existence for my problem and I cannot seem to find it anywhere.
My build:
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K
GPU: Galax GTX 970
PSU: No-name 750W
HDD: Toshiba 1TB (DT01ACA100)
SSD: SanDisk 128GB M.2
RAM: Synology ECC 1x8GB DDR4
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit
UPDATE I JUST THOUGHT ABOUT: Program Files and Program Files (x86) were hosted on the bad HDD.
The short version: I heard strange revving and clicking coming from my HDD, so I powered the system down and tried another, spare functioning HDD from an older laptop. It now will not recognize either drive in Explorer, and many of my OS-embedded systems do not function (Device Manager, Task Manager, Disk Manager, etc). Some programs installed exclusively on the M.2 SSD will not run either.
The long version:
As noted above, I heard the hard drive repeatedly spooling up, pause, then a sharp "tick...tock," sort of like a solenoid noise, then spinning down. This repeated every three seconds, endlessly, no matter what the computer was doing. Rev, click, spin down. I still had access to my data on the drive, however it was painfully slow (4 MB/s or less according to Rainmeter).
I did some research and decided the drive was malfunctioning and was going to fail.
My OS is installed on my M.2 SSD, so I wasn't worried, and it's an almost brand new build less than a month old, so I have very little other than a Steam library on my HDD, so it wasn't an imminent issue of data, but I still wanted to try to back it up.
As I started the backup process to a 250GB Seagate Free Agent USB external drive, the internal drive went into its rev cycle, but more accelerated, and all data transfer stopped despite showing 100% disk utilization. I aborted and decided to try to reformat an existing drive from a broken laptop that still functioned.
I shut the system down and waited 20 seconds for everything to stop spinning and be totally flatlined, then installed the new 500GB drive.
On startup, however, it hung on the BIOS splash screen, with Gigabyte's logo on the screen. I had no ability to Del or F12 into BIOS, it was just hung. I waited five minutes and eventually it pushed through to the Windows 10 startup screen, but the circle just kept spinning for 20 minutes straight. I shut it down and unplugged both SATA drives and just booted to the M.2.
I attempted to run the Task Manager, however it refused to open. Almost exactly six minutes later, a message popped up on the screen.
"::{26EE0668-A00A-447D-9371-BEB064C98683}\0\::{74246BFC-4C96-0020AF6B0B7A}
The specified path does not exist.
Check the path, and then try again."
Disk Manager, Device Manager, and Control Panel all returned similar results.
Booting with the M.2 only works great, it's up in 23 seconds.
I tried booting with just the new (unformatted) HDD plugged in. It hung on the BIOS screen.
I tried booting with only the old HDD plugged in. 95% of the time, hang on startup.
I can't seem to boot in recovery or Safe Mode because it won't get past the BIOS screen.
Recently it pushed through after almost 10 minutes on the BIOS splash with just the old drive. I was able to get into the BIOS and see that the old drive is recognized by the BIOS, but doesn't show up on Explorer when I booted again.
I also cannot run several programs installed on the SSD. MSI Afterburner, Piriform Speccy, and Seagate SeaTools will not run.
I'm at my wit's end. I can't map the disk because I don't have access to any Windows 10 management tools. Did some of my OS somehow migrate to the old disk and it got taken with it when it failed?
Sorry for the novel of a problem, but it seems to be a fairly uncommon issue that a ton of searching hasn't revealed a solution to.
Thanks in advance, I hope I get this sucker back up and running soon...
Long time lurker, first time poster.
Before you point me away to another thread, I've searched for almost ten hours on every computer forum website in existence for my problem and I cannot seem to find it anywhere.
My build:
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H
CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K
GPU: Galax GTX 970
PSU: No-name 750W
HDD: Toshiba 1TB (DT01ACA100)
SSD: SanDisk 128GB M.2
RAM: Synology ECC 1x8GB DDR4
OS: Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit
UPDATE I JUST THOUGHT ABOUT: Program Files and Program Files (x86) were hosted on the bad HDD.
The short version: I heard strange revving and clicking coming from my HDD, so I powered the system down and tried another, spare functioning HDD from an older laptop. It now will not recognize either drive in Explorer, and many of my OS-embedded systems do not function (Device Manager, Task Manager, Disk Manager, etc). Some programs installed exclusively on the M.2 SSD will not run either.
The long version:
As noted above, I heard the hard drive repeatedly spooling up, pause, then a sharp "tick...tock," sort of like a solenoid noise, then spinning down. This repeated every three seconds, endlessly, no matter what the computer was doing. Rev, click, spin down. I still had access to my data on the drive, however it was painfully slow (4 MB/s or less according to Rainmeter).
I did some research and decided the drive was malfunctioning and was going to fail.
My OS is installed on my M.2 SSD, so I wasn't worried, and it's an almost brand new build less than a month old, so I have very little other than a Steam library on my HDD, so it wasn't an imminent issue of data, but I still wanted to try to back it up.
As I started the backup process to a 250GB Seagate Free Agent USB external drive, the internal drive went into its rev cycle, but more accelerated, and all data transfer stopped despite showing 100% disk utilization. I aborted and decided to try to reformat an existing drive from a broken laptop that still functioned.
I shut the system down and waited 20 seconds for everything to stop spinning and be totally flatlined, then installed the new 500GB drive.
On startup, however, it hung on the BIOS splash screen, with Gigabyte's logo on the screen. I had no ability to Del or F12 into BIOS, it was just hung. I waited five minutes and eventually it pushed through to the Windows 10 startup screen, but the circle just kept spinning for 20 minutes straight. I shut it down and unplugged both SATA drives and just booted to the M.2.
I attempted to run the Task Manager, however it refused to open. Almost exactly six minutes later, a message popped up on the screen.
"::{26EE0668-A00A-447D-9371-BEB064C98683}\0\::{74246BFC-4C96-0020AF6B0B7A}
The specified path does not exist.
Check the path, and then try again."
Disk Manager, Device Manager, and Control Panel all returned similar results.
Booting with the M.2 only works great, it's up in 23 seconds.
I tried booting with just the new (unformatted) HDD plugged in. It hung on the BIOS screen.
I tried booting with only the old HDD plugged in. 95% of the time, hang on startup.
I can't seem to boot in recovery or Safe Mode because it won't get past the BIOS screen.
Recently it pushed through after almost 10 minutes on the BIOS splash with just the old drive. I was able to get into the BIOS and see that the old drive is recognized by the BIOS, but doesn't show up on Explorer when I booted again.
I also cannot run several programs installed on the SSD. MSI Afterburner, Piriform Speccy, and Seagate SeaTools will not run.
I'm at my wit's end. I can't map the disk because I don't have access to any Windows 10 management tools. Did some of my OS somehow migrate to the old disk and it got taken with it when it failed?
Sorry for the novel of a problem, but it seems to be a fairly uncommon issue that a ton of searching hasn't revealed a solution to.
Thanks in advance, I hope I get this sucker back up and running soon...
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