I'm having storage issues with my hard drive

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Hi guys,

So I'm having issues with my HDD. I've had the HDD for about 3 years now and I'm hoping that it's not dying, but every single time I boot up my computer, it always needs to check the drive for the right formation (consistency). Also so far, after checking my drive every boot time, it finds corrupted files or errors within them and corrects them/recovers them. Furthermore, I have all of my games on the hard drive and a lot of the games are crashing. And every now and then my computer can't detect the drive and I'm forced to restart my computer to re-detect it. I'm not sure if this will help, but the capacity of it is 2TB and I've used 396GB.

And of course, I'm trying to backup this hard drive, but it keeps pausing because of issues with it. I'm trying to use EaseUS Todo Backup Free. Any ideas of what to do? I really don't want to lose any of my games' progress.

Thanks in advance!

 

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If you don't want to lose game progress, find out where the game actually stores that progress and focus on saving those games and any other important files first. The rest of the game data can be re-installed if the HDD decides to die for good before you are done copying everything elsewhere.

If the HDD is having major issues, you should (hopefully) be seeing a boot-time message telling you that the HDD has SMART parameters that indicate issues with the drive. You could also download the HDD manufacturer's diagnostic tool and see what it has to say about your HDD's state, preferably after you are done backing up all your critical files.

If your escalating problems are really due to a HDD failure, your HDD may have very limited life left in front of it and you shouldn't squander it on attempting to diagnose it until your salvageable data has been copied elsewhere.