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Faulty HDD?

Duckmeister
By Duckmeister
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Hey guys, I bought a new HDD in June this year - the SeaGate Barracuda 1TB 6GB/S. Recently, usually while running games, the program crashes and closes, then a windows notification pops-up in the bottom right saying something like "HDD E:
Choose what you want to do with this drive"

I've seen the message before but only when plugging in USB drives... Is this a problem with the HDD itself or the rest of my PC? I'd appreciate any help I can get, thanks.

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Check the wires.

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As Almostbauws has already said, double check the SATA connectors and make sure they're connected properly. If you're still having issues, try swapping the cables, if one of them if faulty/damaged.

 

Other than that, you could try running etither Seatools or HDTune to see if there are any bad sectors/clusters. I have a hard time seeing that your problem would be caused by this though.

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4 minutes ago, Praxis727 said:

To be clear you did format the hard drive upon install?  

Yes I did format the drive.

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4 minutes ago, Praxis727 said:

is the drive showing up as a removable hard drive? 

Nope it says Local disk and has the icon the same as my other drives...

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