My two and a half-year-old 3TB hard drive was not showing up in Windows Explorer. I went into Disk Management and it asked me to initialize it. The process wiped about 2.7TB of stuff. Only about half of which I managed to recover. I put the recovered files back onto the drive and now after about 10 days after the incident in which I lost almost everything on the drive it is not showing up again and asking me to initialize it in the Disk Management section again.
I have taken the drive out and checked all the cable and it seems fine. When I load certain programs I hear a clicking noise. Which is strange because I don't install programs on this drive as it's only for media. I imagine that an SSD wouldn't make any sounds of course.
Do I need a new one? I don't feel comfortable using it any more as it feels like a liability.
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
GPU RTX 2070 Super FE
Motherboard AsRock 570x TaiChi
I have taken the drive out and checked all the cable and it seems fine. When I load certain programs I hear a clicking noise. Which is strange because I don't install programs on this drive as it's only for media. I imagine that an SSD wouldn't make any sounds of course.
Do I need a new one? I don't feel comfortable using it any more as it feels like a liability.
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Core Processor 3.80 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB
GPU RTX 2070 Super FE
Motherboard AsRock 570x TaiChi