I'm wondering if someone might be able to help me figure out what happened last night with my hard drive.
I have two hard drives in my computer. One is a 750gb Samsung, which is partitioned and which holds my operating system (Win7) and Users files. The other is a Samsung 2tb which I bought about a month ago, and which stores backups, media files etc.
I was using my computer as normal and, as I happened to be looking at my torrent download application (which stores data to the 2tb drive), I noticed an error appeared on one of the files indicating an invalid target directory. Before I know it, a blue screen appears and begins to perform a memory dump, and the computer restarts.
Upon restart I can no longer find the 2tb hd in My Computer. Worried, I restart, enter the BIOS, and run a short SMART scan, which turns out fine. After I reload this time the hard drive shows up and I can access files. Tired, I turn the computer off for the night. In the morning the same problem occurs again. I didn't have time to perform the same test as before, and now I'm at work thinking about what to do when I arrive home. Can anyone help me shed some light on what these symptoms indicate? Are there simply some bad sectors, or might this be something more serious?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
I have two hard drives in my computer. One is a 750gb Samsung, which is partitioned and which holds my operating system (Win7) and Users files. The other is a Samsung 2tb which I bought about a month ago, and which stores backups, media files etc.
I was using my computer as normal and, as I happened to be looking at my torrent download application (which stores data to the 2tb drive), I noticed an error appeared on one of the files indicating an invalid target directory. Before I know it, a blue screen appears and begins to perform a memory dump, and the computer restarts.
Upon restart I can no longer find the 2tb hd in My Computer. Worried, I restart, enter the BIOS, and run a short SMART scan, which turns out fine. After I reload this time the hard drive shows up and I can access files. Tired, I turn the computer off for the night. In the morning the same problem occurs again. I didn't have time to perform the same test as before, and now I'm at work thinking about what to do when I arrive home. Can anyone help me shed some light on what these symptoms indicate? Are there simply some bad sectors, or might this be something more serious?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!