Ok. So this is a really curious issue that's hard to explain and harder to figure out but here goes:
I know something is broken on my PC and I suspect my PSU so this may be just one other symptom or it could be something else and I just want to confirm.
Basically my D: drive (internal Samsung 1TB HDD) starts becoming inaccessible if I leave my PC plugged into the mains overnight.
Now, exactly what happens is: when I try to load a game stored on the drive it will disconnect and reconnect after 1 second, causing the game launcher to ask for an installation path. However if I do unplug it overnight then (the next day when I plug it back in) there are seemingly no issues with accessing anything on the harddrive.
It has been happening for a number of days now and if I don't unplug it overnight, whilst I can use my C: perfectly fine (internal SanDisk 240GB SSD) I have to unplug my D: from the PSU for quite some time before I can plug it back in and use it again.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
ADD: I tried to do an error check to see if there were bad sectors and caused the HDD to disconnect and then reconnect whilst making a *whirrrr, chirrr-thuck* kinda noise as if the disk suddenly spooled back up and the head was moving back and forth rapidly. I may be interpreting the noise wrong but I'm trying my best to troubleshoot atm.
I know something is broken on my PC and I suspect my PSU so this may be just one other symptom or it could be something else and I just want to confirm.
Basically my D: drive (internal Samsung 1TB HDD) starts becoming inaccessible if I leave my PC plugged into the mains overnight.
Now, exactly what happens is: when I try to load a game stored on the drive it will disconnect and reconnect after 1 second, causing the game launcher to ask for an installation path. However if I do unplug it overnight then (the next day when I plug it back in) there are seemingly no issues with accessing anything on the harddrive.
It has been happening for a number of days now and if I don't unplug it overnight, whilst I can use my C: perfectly fine (internal SanDisk 240GB SSD) I have to unplug my D: from the PSU for quite some time before I can plug it back in and use it again.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
ADD: I tried to do an error check to see if there were bad sectors and caused the HDD to disconnect and then reconnect whilst making a *whirrrr, chirrr-thuck* kinda noise as if the disk suddenly spooled back up and the head was moving back and forth rapidly. I may be interpreting the noise wrong but I'm trying my best to troubleshoot atm.