Pretty sure one of my hard drives is about to die [RESOLVED]

It randomly disappears from the drive list. (won’t show up in Disk Management after this happens). On a cold boot the drive shows up fine. Restarts won’t make it show after it vanishes.

If I run a game or try to install a game on it…the whole PC will freeze up at some point without warning. Literally the only thing on the drive is steam games so it isn’t that big of a deal.

Not sure I can do something to “fix” it…?

EDIT: I FIXED IT

Same happened to me some time ago. Thought it was the drive until I switched new SATA cables.

I’ll try the cables. I unmounted the drive, running a scan now. (lol)

I did recently delete a huge backup file on the drive (over a TB of data).

Running Error-checking actually fixed the problem. :)

Grats!

Why aren’t you using Desktop Fences?

Yeah…I had to look up what you were talking about. I don’t think I need them. I barely use desktop icons.