Hi all,
I have just encountered what I deem some major problems with my PC. I got home today and started Steam. I can't recall the order of events, however games were acting strangely. CS:GO in particular was unable to start, so I tried to verify the integrity of the local files. Steam found errors, tried fixing them, but hung in the process. I tried restarting my PC, and noticed that the drive (E) that steam is on was not listed in My Computer. I checked Disk Manager and it was absent from there as well.
I had a little trouble with some malware a few days ago, but malwarebytes supposedly cleaned it. I'm not entirely sure whats causing these problems. From now on, the drive keeps disappearing after a while, and the only way to get to to reappear is by shutting down and powering up.
My C: drive was a little full, and I deemed that was the cause, so I moved some files to the E drive. This was painfully slow. The next step I tried was error-checking the drives. C drive came up clean, but chkdsk said it could not access the volume E. Error-checking did not work through My Computer, only resulted in a hang. Seatools for windows came up with a fail on the generic short test for unknown reasons.
This has all been happening between eventual dismounts and hard reboots.
The drives are OCZ 120gb SSD (C) and Seagate Barracuda 3TB (E). I haven't installed any software apart from a driver for my wifi adapter.
Any help would be appreciated. I just wish I had an external drive to back up to right about now...
EDIT: I just ran another short generic with Seatools and it has passed. Also, SMART has not been tripped on the drive.
EDIT 2: Just ran a Seatools Fix All Fast and it failed for unspecified reasons. Starting to get a little flustered.
I have just encountered what I deem some major problems with my PC. I got home today and started Steam. I can't recall the order of events, however games were acting strangely. CS:GO in particular was unable to start, so I tried to verify the integrity of the local files. Steam found errors, tried fixing them, but hung in the process. I tried restarting my PC, and noticed that the drive (E) that steam is on was not listed in My Computer. I checked Disk Manager and it was absent from there as well.
I had a little trouble with some malware a few days ago, but malwarebytes supposedly cleaned it. I'm not entirely sure whats causing these problems. From now on, the drive keeps disappearing after a while, and the only way to get to to reappear is by shutting down and powering up.
My C: drive was a little full, and I deemed that was the cause, so I moved some files to the E drive. This was painfully slow. The next step I tried was error-checking the drives. C drive came up clean, but chkdsk said it could not access the volume E. Error-checking did not work through My Computer, only resulted in a hang. Seatools for windows came up with a fail on the generic short test for unknown reasons.
This has all been happening between eventual dismounts and hard reboots.
The drives are OCZ 120gb SSD (C) and Seagate Barracuda 3TB (E). I haven't installed any software apart from a driver for my wifi adapter.
Any help would be appreciated. I just wish I had an external drive to back up to right about now...
EDIT: I just ran another short generic with Seatools and it has passed. Also, SMART has not been tripped on the drive.
EDIT 2: Just ran a Seatools Fix All Fast and it failed for unspecified reasons. Starting to get a little flustered.