Hey there
My music/ recording computer developed issues. Just recently it was working well and we were recording. It is Intel Ivy Bridge 3770K system with multiple SSDs and HHDs, which store music software and audio samples. The E drive is 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD. It was built in 2013, but used very lightly, approximately few hours a week or less.
Strange behavior: It suddenly not able to open projects with Cakewalk DAW. The Cakewalk is installed on C drive. The projects it supposed to open all stored on E drive. When attempt to open a project, the wheel is spinning and spinning and spinning and eventually, it says- program is not responding. It freezes. This audio software recently was sold to another company and had stability issues for years, so I have seen it "Not Responding" before, but usually it would be one time thing and then it would work.
I have tried to run Disk Check by Windows. After hanging for significant time with no progress, it says, "Windows was not able to scan this drive. Try the scan again. If problem persists, Scan and repair drive." Also trying to test E- drive with Seagate Tools and it runs scan on one of HDDs but not able to run on another (they not identified by letter, but I assume- the one that hanging is E drive).
I dont want to buy another drive and struggle with moving data from this drive if it is not broken. Any other reasons it may be acting out?
I was told to use https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/crystaldiskinfo.html Crystal Disk Info from this link to check it- what do you think? Thank you very much!
My music/ recording computer developed issues. Just recently it was working well and we were recording. It is Intel Ivy Bridge 3770K system with multiple SSDs and HHDs, which store music software and audio samples. The E drive is 2TB Seagate Barracuda HDD. It was built in 2013, but used very lightly, approximately few hours a week or less.
Strange behavior: It suddenly not able to open projects with Cakewalk DAW. The Cakewalk is installed on C drive. The projects it supposed to open all stored on E drive. When attempt to open a project, the wheel is spinning and spinning and spinning and eventually, it says- program is not responding. It freezes. This audio software recently was sold to another company and had stability issues for years, so I have seen it "Not Responding" before, but usually it would be one time thing and then it would work.
I have tried to run Disk Check by Windows. After hanging for significant time with no progress, it says, "Windows was not able to scan this drive. Try the scan again. If problem persists, Scan and repair drive." Also trying to test E- drive with Seagate Tools and it runs scan on one of HDDs but not able to run on another (they not identified by letter, but I assume- the one that hanging is E drive).
I dont want to buy another drive and struggle with moving data from this drive if it is not broken. Any other reasons it may be acting out?
I was told to use https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/crystaldiskinfo.html Crystal Disk Info from this link to check it- what do you think? Thank you very much!