- Aug 9, 2016
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Hi so I want to start this off by saying that I probably made some very dumb desicions in the past week involving my hard drive that have lead to this problem but I'm trying to learn and get better with PCs.
Ok so in August of last year I built my first PC. I outfitted it with:
CPU:
Intel i5-6500 (3.2ghz, 4 core)
Motherboard:
Asus H110M-A
GPU:
GTX 950
Memory:
HyperX Fury 16GB (2 times 8gb)
Storage:
Kingston 120GB SSD
Western Digital 1TB, 7200rpm, SATA 6.0gb/s
Power Supply:
Corsair rmx 550w 80+ gold
The past couple weeks I have been having problems with the Western Digital hard drive. It started with Fallout 4 being unable to download on Steam, the wifi usage and disk usage rates would drop to zero suddenly and after a while of that happening steam would tell me it couldn't download and where it usually shows the estimated time it would say corrupted disk. So I did a couple things. I ran dskchk but I got impatient and cancelled it and I still do not understand why I didn't go through with it. Then I uninstalled all my games from the hard drive and deleted the steam library folder and recreated it and did the steam library folder repair thing, cleared my download cache. It still came up with corrupt disk. Then I fully completed dskchk and after its initial scanning phase it told me it found some errors to fix and I restarted the computer an so it fixed them (I remember this part took way less time than I thought it would, maybe a couple of hours maximum). Then I did an AVG scan and it found a threat which it fixed also. I thought ok this is good now it will work so I downloaded back onto the hard drive. I had also got back into CIV 5 and since it was installed on my SSD I played it (everything on my SSD worked and works fine). During one of the times I was playing it I accidentally pulled the power cable for my PC out of the socket and it immediately shut off. It might be important to mention that I was also downloading a game onto my hard drive in the background at the time (although the download may have been paused because I do not think I had enabled steam to download while playing a game). Ok so I had checked for errors, there had been some detected less than an hour into the scan and Windows prompted me to restart to fix them and I did that but it still said corrupt disk, so I did it again. Before I checked it again I did a disk defragmentation but then I read it wasn't basically useless unless the disk was 90% full so I cancelled I think because mine was less than 20%. This time the dskchk (or whatever's you call it on Windows 10) went very fast and I don't even know if it took and hour but my computer prompted me to restart again I did and when it booted back up I got a message from the SMART system telling me that a hard drive failure was imminent. So I looked up on my phone what this she meant and to my horror I found out it meant exactly what it said my hard drive had an unfixable problem. So naturally I tried to fix it. I check bios for the thing disabling SMART so I could get back into my computer an drew try to fix it with another disk check, backup my files and all that other stuff. I couldn't find this setting so I turned everything off unplugged the power and opened my case. My cable management had been terrible originally because I didn't know that the one side of the case could be used to put cables in. So I spent an hour and a half making my cable management slightly better and then I unplugged and reconnected my hard drive maybe 10 times. I didn't this on by endangering but significantly more time and on the side that connects into the hard drive. Unfortunately this didn't nothing and I still got the message so I decided I would need to buy a new hard drive. This made me take the hard drive out of the computer put it back into the anti static bag it came from and leave it. I'm wondering if there's anything I can do and I feel I can't do anything and I need a new hard drive what are some very reliable replacements.
Ok so in August of last year I built my first PC. I outfitted it with:
CPU:
Intel i5-6500 (3.2ghz, 4 core)
Motherboard:
Asus H110M-A
GPU:
GTX 950
Memory:
HyperX Fury 16GB (2 times 8gb)
Storage:
Kingston 120GB SSD
Western Digital 1TB, 7200rpm, SATA 6.0gb/s
Power Supply:
Corsair rmx 550w 80+ gold
The past couple weeks I have been having problems with the Western Digital hard drive. It started with Fallout 4 being unable to download on Steam, the wifi usage and disk usage rates would drop to zero suddenly and after a while of that happening steam would tell me it couldn't download and where it usually shows the estimated time it would say corrupted disk. So I did a couple things. I ran dskchk but I got impatient and cancelled it and I still do not understand why I didn't go through with it. Then I uninstalled all my games from the hard drive and deleted the steam library folder and recreated it and did the steam library folder repair thing, cleared my download cache. It still came up with corrupt disk. Then I fully completed dskchk and after its initial scanning phase it told me it found some errors to fix and I restarted the computer an so it fixed them (I remember this part took way less time than I thought it would, maybe a couple of hours maximum). Then I did an AVG scan and it found a threat which it fixed also. I thought ok this is good now it will work so I downloaded back onto the hard drive. I had also got back into CIV 5 and since it was installed on my SSD I played it (everything on my SSD worked and works fine). During one of the times I was playing it I accidentally pulled the power cable for my PC out of the socket and it immediately shut off. It might be important to mention that I was also downloading a game onto my hard drive in the background at the time (although the download may have been paused because I do not think I had enabled steam to download while playing a game). Ok so I had checked for errors, there had been some detected less than an hour into the scan and Windows prompted me to restart to fix them and I did that but it still said corrupt disk, so I did it again. Before I checked it again I did a disk defragmentation but then I read it wasn't basically useless unless the disk was 90% full so I cancelled I think because mine was less than 20%. This time the dskchk (or whatever's you call it on Windows 10) went very fast and I don't even know if it took and hour but my computer prompted me to restart again I did and when it booted back up I got a message from the SMART system telling me that a hard drive failure was imminent. So I looked up on my phone what this she meant and to my horror I found out it meant exactly what it said my hard drive had an unfixable problem. So naturally I tried to fix it. I check bios for the thing disabling SMART so I could get back into my computer an drew try to fix it with another disk check, backup my files and all that other stuff. I couldn't find this setting so I turned everything off unplugged the power and opened my case. My cable management had been terrible originally because I didn't know that the one side of the case could be used to put cables in. So I spent an hour and a half making my cable management slightly better and then I unplugged and reconnected my hard drive maybe 10 times. I didn't this on by endangering but significantly more time and on the side that connects into the hard drive. Unfortunately this didn't nothing and I still got the message so I decided I would need to buy a new hard drive. This made me take the hard drive out of the computer put it back into the anti static bag it came from and leave it. I'm wondering if there's anything I can do and I feel I can't do anything and I need a new hard drive what are some very reliable replacements.
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