Steam games suddenly gone on HDD

[Kanna]

I was looking to play a steam game when I saw it was missing files, opening local files it was empty some other games too, what could be the cause? is my HDD dying?

[TheStyne]

I would first check the drive's SMART status, as this can reveal many errors. This article explains how to do it with CrystalDiskInfo, which is typically how I check SMART data.

[Nycz]

issue this command in cmd: 

wmic diskdrive get status

if you get ok for all drives then your drives are probably healthy

[Kanna]

1 minute ago, TheStyne said:

I would first check the drive's SMART status, as this can reveal many errors. This article explains how to do it with CrystalDiskInfo, which is typically how I check SMART data.

Just now, Nycz said:

issue this command in cmd: 

wmic diskdrive get status

if you get ok for all drives then your drives are probably healthy

 

 doesn't seem to be any issues if you ask me

 

[da na]

4 minutes ago, Nycz said:

issue this command in cmd: 

wmic diskdrive get status

if you get ok for all drives then your drives are probably healthy

Put in a drive with 1000 bad sectors and

it still said OK. So this method isn't really reliable - checking SMART is much better.

I'd say run CHKDSK as well. 

[TheStyne]

How many games did this happen to? Is it possible that something happened while updating these games, like unexpected power loss?

[Kanna]

2 minutes ago, TheStyne said:

How many games did this happen to? Is it possible that something happened while updating these games, like unexpected power loss?

like 6 games it seems, and I don't remember updating them, one doesn't even receive them

[Kanna]

7 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

Put in a drive with 1000 bad sectors and

it still said OK. So this method isn't really reliable - checking SMART is much better.

I'd say run CHKDSK as well. 

Here you go 

[da na]

Just now, Kanna said:

Here you go 

That is strange. Perhaps Steam just did an oopsie? Reinstall Steam is my next best guess, sorry

[TheStyne]

1 minute ago, Kanna said:

like 6 games it seems, and I don't remember updating them, one doesn't even receive them

Interesting. Have you had anything else go missing from this hard drive? Take a look around at other non-steam programs and files, see if they all open correctly and make sure that personal files are still there. I find it very unlikely that 6 Steam games would be the only thing affected if this was a HDD issue, so I'm leaning towards Steam issue, as @Mel0nMan suggested.

[Kanna]

2 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

That is strange. Perhaps Steam just did an oopsie? Reinstall Steam is my next best guess, sorry

1 minute ago, TheStyne said:

Interesting. Have you had anything else go missing from this hard drive? Take a look around at other non-steam programs and files, see if they all open correctly and make sure that personal files are still there. I find it very unlikely that 6 Steam games would be the only thing affected if this was a HDD issue, so I'm leaning towards Steam issue, as @Mel0nMan suggested.

Steam is quite freshly installed since I reinstalled windows with this new PC, no other files seem to be gone but this one folder takes really long but that is self explanatory why (it's big)

[TheStyne]

My recommendation at this point is to reinstall the games, and wait a few days to see if it happens again. If it does, feel free to send me a message, and we can troubleshoot farther at that point 

[Nycz]

1 hour ago, Mel0nMan said:

Put in a drive with 1000 bad sectors and

it still said OK. So this method isn't really reliable - checking SMART is much better.

I'd say run CHKDSK as well. 

yea i dont really know i never used that tool before but it came to mind that it existed guess microsoft didnt put a lot of work into that tool