Need some help Post-Formatting

[Danger Noodle]

So my computer was recently playing up, it has been constantly blue screening after a couple hours of use consistently for the better part of 2 months, I had sent it in for repairs but each time they would send it back and say its fixed when it clearly wasn't as the crashes would continue. anyway, i noticed that the hard drive had been putting out several error messages around the time of the crash and then did nothing more with that information, until today. I figured that a reason that the computer might be BSODing so much because I still had my GTX-960 drivers installed, and those might be conflicting with my newer GTX-1060 drivers, causing problems, however after uninstalling the 960 drivers i went to play a steam game to test if the problem had been resolved, and found that every single one of my games was missing, as they were all installed on the hard drive and not my SSD. the hard drive had been changed to the File System type as "RAW" and I was unable to format the drive or access it. I resorted to deleting the Partition for the drive and recreating it which seems to have fixed the problem, however now the drive is showing up twice, with one constantly having the status as "Formatting" I'm wondering not only is it safe to delete the duplicate hard drive with the formatting status, but also how to go about using the hard drive from here on out. should I replace the drive ASAP, or will it be fine to use for some time now that its back to NTFS.

this is how the Computer Management looks like currently, after recreating the HDD Partition, I would appreciate any help anyone can give me.

Thanks, Gianni.



Update / Edit: the "formatting" drive has now disappeared, and the drive seems to be working again, but I would still appreciate any advice or knowledge on if any of the BSOD problems could be caused by any of the changes I talked about in the original post, as well as any information moving forward on if the drive is safe to use now.

[Energycore]

That's a bit of a weird issue, but you should start by unplugging the HDD and booting to Windows without it connected. See if something shows up there.

 

If you don't mind losing all the data on the HDD, a quick and easy way out is to wipe the hard drive. My preferred method for this is to use Western Digital's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool which has a write zeros feature that will wipe the whole thing, but you need to have a WD drive in your computer to use it. If you don't, CCleaner has a drive wiper tool as well.

 

But before you do that, download CrystalDiskInfo and make sure the drive is healthy, if something shows up as being bad you may have to replace it.

 

Oh and just in case, if you want to keep your HDD data, open the command prompt as administrator (that'll be C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe). Then type in

chkdsk D: /f

If it prompts you to dismount the volume, type Y for yes and let it check the file system.

[Danger Noodle]

@Energycore alright, ill check out cc cleaners one in that case, the drives already got no data on it, its back to working it would seem. do you know if the fact my steam games were on a corrupting hard drive would lead to the BSOD issues i was having? or if the 960 drivers and 1060 drivers would be a contributing cause to that?

also sorry for not replying sooner, i had to quickly run off and do something haha

[Energycore]

6 minutes ago, Danger Noodle said:

@Energycore alright, ill check out cc cleaners one in that case, the drives already got no data on it, its back to working it would seem. do you know if the fact my steam games were on a corrupting hard drive would lead to the BSOD issues i was having? or if the 960 drivers and 1060 drivers would be a contributing cause to that?

also sorry for not replying sooner, i had to quickly run off and do something haha

The BSOD might have been anything really. If you wrote down the BSOD code (something like DRIVER_IRQL_LESS_THAN_OR_EQUAL or similar text), that would help knowing why you're BSODing. It might have nothing at all to do with the hard drive.

[Danger Noodle]

@Energycore the BSOD issue has been happening for months now, and seems to have stopped once i uninstalled those drivers and the drive fully corrupted, i think ill get a new hard drive because it just corrupted again when i tried to touch it haha.