Hey everyone, first post, made an account just for this thing. Been having awful couple of weeks.
First off, here are my system specs:
GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB
CPU: Ryzen 2600
RAM: Kingston Predator 16GB 3000MHz
Motherboard: Asus Prime A320M-K (I know...)
PSU: Raidmax RX-735AP-RGB
Alright, so, here's what's going on.
Around a month ago or so, my old (~7 years) HDD died. It was used for storage, as I have a small 120GB Kingston SSD for my system. So I bought a replacement, Toshiba P300 (HDWD120) 2TB. After I put it in, it worked for a while, but suddenly it started not responding every time it'd be writing for more than a few seconds, causing the whole PC to run horribly and requiring a restart. Usually this was accompanied by a repeating clicking sound as it, I assume, tries to reset itself. I quickly checked its sectors and health, and everything seemed to be fine. Ran a few CHKDSKs and nothing was found.
Then I thought it might be the SATA port on my motherboard, so I changed the port. Still not responding. Now, sometimes after restarting the PC, it wouldn't even be recognized. Then, after another restart, it would be there but remain unusable.
So, I changed the SATA cable itself. This also didn't work. Then, its health suddenly dropped to 0% and it gave a Seek Error Rate (checked with HDD Sentinel). After that, figured I just take the HDD out and call it a loss, maybe try and chase warranty but in the meantime I put in 2 older, perfectly healthy, HDDs in. Both of them are 500GB Samsung drives with around 500 days of usage - SAMSUNG HD503HI.
First, it worked fine for a day or two, but then weird stuff started happening again. Whenever I'd boot the PC up - one of the HDDs was unrecognized. I tried it a couple of times to try and see a pattern, but it seemed random. The one that would appear would suffer the same problem as the previous Toshiba disk.
After a day or so of that, one of them completely stopped working, and the other one was now always appearing. Still suffering the same problem of not responding.
Again, I checked health and sectors, it all seemed fine. Unplugged the drive, plugged the one that wasn't being recognized in on its own - it was working, with the same problem.
Took them both out. Installed a fresh version of Windows. Tried them again, still the same problems.
In a moment of desperation I put the Toshiba disk in again. This time, it was somehow at 100% health again (again, checked with HDD Sentinel). I believe this is impossible, right? It must have been a bad read by the program either now or the last time?
Checked it a bit more, and found a few corrupt sectors this time, which I stopped from being used. After this, the disk seemed to work fine for a few hours, but then the same not responding issue started happening.
At this point, it's been around a month, probably longer, and I have absolutely no idea what to do to fix this. Any help is appreciated.
Also, the lil Kingston SSD has been running with no problems the entire time.
tl;dr
Multiple HDDS going Not Responding when writing on them, causing the whole PC to run horribly and need a restart
When 2 HDDS are in, sometimes only 1 would be recognizable at a time
Tried swapping cables &SATA ports
Tried chkdsks and checked sectors/health
Have no idea what to do.
UPDATE:
The Toshiba disk is still in the PC, and is now constantly restarting itself accompanied with clicking sounds. There's nothing on it, and it isn't reading/writing anything.
First off, here are my system specs:
GPU: Sapphire Nitro+ RX580 8GB
CPU: Ryzen 2600
RAM: Kingston Predator 16GB 3000MHz
Motherboard: Asus Prime A320M-K (I know...)
PSU: Raidmax RX-735AP-RGB
Alright, so, here's what's going on.
Around a month ago or so, my old (~7 years) HDD died. It was used for storage, as I have a small 120GB Kingston SSD for my system. So I bought a replacement, Toshiba P300 (HDWD120) 2TB. After I put it in, it worked for a while, but suddenly it started not responding every time it'd be writing for more than a few seconds, causing the whole PC to run horribly and requiring a restart. Usually this was accompanied by a repeating clicking sound as it, I assume, tries to reset itself. I quickly checked its sectors and health, and everything seemed to be fine. Ran a few CHKDSKs and nothing was found.
Then I thought it might be the SATA port on my motherboard, so I changed the port. Still not responding. Now, sometimes after restarting the PC, it wouldn't even be recognized. Then, after another restart, it would be there but remain unusable.
So, I changed the SATA cable itself. This also didn't work. Then, its health suddenly dropped to 0% and it gave a Seek Error Rate (checked with HDD Sentinel). After that, figured I just take the HDD out and call it a loss, maybe try and chase warranty but in the meantime I put in 2 older, perfectly healthy, HDDs in. Both of them are 500GB Samsung drives with around 500 days of usage - SAMSUNG HD503HI.
First, it worked fine for a day or two, but then weird stuff started happening again. Whenever I'd boot the PC up - one of the HDDs was unrecognized. I tried it a couple of times to try and see a pattern, but it seemed random. The one that would appear would suffer the same problem as the previous Toshiba disk.
After a day or so of that, one of them completely stopped working, and the other one was now always appearing. Still suffering the same problem of not responding.
Again, I checked health and sectors, it all seemed fine. Unplugged the drive, plugged the one that wasn't being recognized in on its own - it was working, with the same problem.
Took them both out. Installed a fresh version of Windows. Tried them again, still the same problems.
In a moment of desperation I put the Toshiba disk in again. This time, it was somehow at 100% health again (again, checked with HDD Sentinel). I believe this is impossible, right? It must have been a bad read by the program either now or the last time?
Checked it a bit more, and found a few corrupt sectors this time, which I stopped from being used. After this, the disk seemed to work fine for a few hours, but then the same not responding issue started happening.
At this point, it's been around a month, probably longer, and I have absolutely no idea what to do to fix this. Any help is appreciated.
Also, the lil Kingston SSD has been running with no problems the entire time.
tl;dr
Multiple HDDS going Not Responding when writing on them, causing the whole PC to run horribly and need a restart
When 2 HDDS are in, sometimes only 1 would be recognizable at a time
Tried swapping cables &SATA ports
Tried chkdsks and checked sectors/health
Have no idea what to do.
UPDATE:
The Toshiba disk is still in the PC, and is now constantly restarting itself accompanied with clicking sounds. There's nothing on it, and it isn't reading/writing anything.
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