- Feb 2, 2009
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Hello all,
I'll get right to the point, I'm having so many harddrive issues today I want to punch my monitor....
About 3 days ago I started my PC up, and noticed it started a CHKDSK on my 1TB black drive. Here's a breakdown of my drives:
64GB SSD - OS
500GB WD Green - Storage (old os drive)
1TB WD Black - Storage (games mostly)
So I don't really pay much attention, it's done in a couple minutes anyways. Everything works fine, I play games off it, bla bla bla. Then the next day I start it up again, and again the CHKDSK runs. And the next day, same thing. Each time it seems to delete about 2-3 files, usually from steam.
Anyways, I figure my drive is going bad. I go to the store and buy a new 1TB Black, and a 1.5TB MyBook to use as a backup for files/ an easy way to transfer an image of my old harddrive to the new 1TB (clarification, will that work as I expect? I create an image of the old drive and I can just clone it to the new one?).
Get home, open the MyBook to start cloning the old drive. Plug it in to my computer, and nothing. The MyBook turns on, but it is not recognized in my computer. When I look at device manager, it shows the MyBook under Disk Drives, but I notice when I plug it in I ALSO get "Unknown Device" under "Other Devices". I uninstall the driver and try several different ports, all with the same outcome. So I figure I have a DOA drive (even though it is recognized in disk management, just without a drive letter). So I plug it into my laptop and it pops up like it should. Works perfect there. So then I go grab a flash drive and plug it in to my desktop and get the same result. Not in My Computer, shows under disk drives AND other devices.
At this point I'm completely lost. What the hell is the problem? All the other drives on my computer open programs perfectly fine. Computer still starts up blazing fast. Anything I try to open on the current, probably dead, drive either freezes, or opens extremely slow. And I can't clone the drive because my computer isn't picking up any new storage devices.
Thanks in advance.
I'll get right to the point, I'm having so many harddrive issues today I want to punch my monitor....
About 3 days ago I started my PC up, and noticed it started a CHKDSK on my 1TB black drive. Here's a breakdown of my drives:
64GB SSD - OS
500GB WD Green - Storage (old os drive)
1TB WD Black - Storage (games mostly)
So I don't really pay much attention, it's done in a couple minutes anyways. Everything works fine, I play games off it, bla bla bla. Then the next day I start it up again, and again the CHKDSK runs. And the next day, same thing. Each time it seems to delete about 2-3 files, usually from steam.
Anyways, I figure my drive is going bad. I go to the store and buy a new 1TB Black, and a 1.5TB MyBook to use as a backup for files/ an easy way to transfer an image of my old harddrive to the new 1TB (clarification, will that work as I expect? I create an image of the old drive and I can just clone it to the new one?).
Get home, open the MyBook to start cloning the old drive. Plug it in to my computer, and nothing. The MyBook turns on, but it is not recognized in my computer. When I look at device manager, it shows the MyBook under Disk Drives, but I notice when I plug it in I ALSO get "Unknown Device" under "Other Devices". I uninstall the driver and try several different ports, all with the same outcome. So I figure I have a DOA drive (even though it is recognized in disk management, just without a drive letter). So I plug it into my laptop and it pops up like it should. Works perfect there. So then I go grab a flash drive and plug it in to my desktop and get the same result. Not in My Computer, shows under disk drives AND other devices.
At this point I'm completely lost. What the hell is the problem? All the other drives on my computer open programs perfectly fine. Computer still starts up blazing fast. Anything I try to open on the current, probably dead, drive either freezes, or opens extremely slow. And I can't clone the drive because my computer isn't picking up any new storage devices.
Thanks in advance.
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