Question Is my HDD really failing?

[treptile]

Context:
I've just installed a M.2 SSD 500GB (Aorus Gen 4) with a separate Windows 10 OS as I was planning to migrate my games over from my old HDD. My old setup consisted of 1TB HDD (a generic WD 3.5' blue drive)

• Everything seem to be working correctly until the day after where upon starting the PC, it would automatically go into boot repair stage 1 and stage 2 (This is for my old HDD). The repair didn't take long, I guess about 2-3 minutes until I could continue normally. This is the first time that I've seen this happening.
• I did restart my PC and went on to test both my SDD and HDD to see if they would boot normally and they did as usual, - The HDD takes longer as expected but that's normal from my experience from my past few years. The SDD is unbelievably quick as expected (Only a few seconds).
• I transferred some games from my HDD to my SDD using the steam migrating system, did some gaming and left it on for about 10 hours before shutting down.
• Today, the second morning when I went to boot up the PC, the boot repair for stage 1 and stage 2 appeared, I am slightly worried

PS - I unplugged the SATA cable to my HDD before I did the windows 10 installation onto my SDD - (I heard this was the way to do it otherwise the installation would create files from my SDD to my HDD?)


Here is my crystaldiskinfo on the health of my HDD, should I be concerned? Can anyone help me on this matter?

 

[Lutfij]

I've just installed a M.2 SSD 500GB (Aorus Gen 4) with a separate Windows 10 OS
Did the SSD have the OS installed onto it? If so, you can and will experience anomalies. If this is a Steam game library, you can merely format the OS on the HDD(leaving the game partition intact, assuming you had a game partition on the drive) then reinstalling the OS onto the SSD. Once you have Steam installed, locate the installers for the game to the physical location on the HDD.

FYI, the ideal route to go would've been to have a larger (Gen 4/5)SSD, ontop of the 500GB SSD(Gen 3), to have as your game library since HDD's are practically something meant for storage only, not for loading into game levels.

I unplugged the SATA cable to my HDD before I did the windows 10 installation onto my SDD
But you didn't format the partition that had the OS installed onto it? Might want to share a screenshot of what you see in Disk Management while both drives are hooked up.

 

[treptile]

I've just installed a M.2 SSD 500GB (Aorus Gen 4) with a separate Windows 10 OS
Did the SSD have the OS installed onto it? If so, you can and will experience anomalies. If this is a Steam game library, you can merely format the OS on the HDD(leaving the game partition intact, assuming you had a game partition on the drive) then reinstalling the OS onto the SSD. Once you have Steam installed, locate the installers for the game to the physical location on the HDD.

Hi thanks for helping out!
No, this was a fresh install, the SDD was brand new, still needing to be reformatted before I could make my windows 10 media installation through my USB stick.

I haven't formatted my HDD as it contains my work files, the reason why I installed another OS on the SSD was to start separating my work and for those files to be on my HDD and then play via on the new SSD.

FYI, the ideal route to go would've been to have a larger (Gen 4/5)SSD, ontop of the 500GB SSD(Gen 3), to have as your game library since HDD's are practically something meant for storage only, not for loading into game levels.

That my plan within the future, this is how I should have really done it but I don't really play an assortment of games, I stick to one before moving onto the next so I didn't think I would need the additional SSDs - I usually delete the game after I'm finished and then install the new game on the same drive.

I unplugged the SATA cable to my HDD before I did the windows 10 installation onto my SDD
But you didn't format the partition that had the OS installed onto it? Might want to share a screenshot of what you see in Disk Management while both drives are hooked up.

As I said, I'm running an OS on my HDD for my work and running and OS on my SSD for gaming
- So yes I did not format the OS on my HDD)

(Both OS are still windows 10. Is that what is causing my problems? I didn't think this would be a problem?)