Weird problems with my HDD?

chilicheeseburger · July 7, 2014

I have my Win7x64 installed to my SSD.

Then I have a 1TB HDD that I use for storage (Games, Movies you get the idea)

Now everything worked fine ever since the beginning.

Today when I turned on my PC my LAN driver apparently stopped working and I couldn't connect to the Internet. I rebooted and while booting checkdisk or what it's called started and checked my HDD. The check was completed very fast but it took a suspiciously lomg time for it to get from 72 to 73%... After that it booted normally but still no Internet.

I repeated this and it was always the same. It also somehow created a non functioning option to boot win7 from the HDD, this is the weirdest thing because the drive has only been used for storage since I formatted it back when I got my SSD. I deleted this Boot option in msconfig then.

Then I booted into Safe mode /w network drivers. The LAN driver worked fine again but I redownloaded and reinstalled it anyway. I then rebooted it normally.

Now everything works fine again, so far at least.

Can these problems have any connection? The LAN driver isn't even installed on the HDD but on my SSD. Why did it fail?

And do you think I should replace my HDD soon (had it since December 2012)

SubTract · July 7, 2014

I wouldn't worry, I would say windows update has just tried to update the driver, corrupted it and then not been able to fix it again (no internet and all). If you're up and running again just go with it.