Edit: I updated my motherboard's BIOS and I did a "reset to original settings" on both of my Crucial SSDs. Once I got Windows reinstalled I used Crucial Storage Executive to update the Firmware for both of the Crucial SSDs. After all that, all of the disk failure warnings have stopped.
I recently finished building my new gaming PC, so it's unusual that I'm getting warnings about my brand new SSDs potentially failing.
Because the PC is new, I don't have any important data saved on this PC, so no need to worry yet about data loss.
This is what I see on my screen each morning I turn on my PC.
I tried restarting my PC to see if the warning keeps happening, but the warning only shows when I turn on my PC after it has been shut down for a full night.
When my PC is running, I also get a warning from "Intel Rapid Storage Technology."
Every once in a while, I will get this notification.
I'll open up the Intel Rapid Storage Technology program and check the health of my hard drives, but the program will say that they are perfectly healthy.
What is happening on my PC and can I fix it?
[Solved, solution here]
Bonjour,
Can you elucidate this mystery ?This message is showing up on 2 identical builds with brand new parts. It happens at the beginning of a boot, after the computer has been off for an hour or more. The configuration is a hackintosh with OpenCore EFIs with everything running 100% smoothly.
Here is the message :
WARNING: Please back-up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent and cause unpredictable fail. Press F1 to Run SETUP.
Additional info for diagnosis :
- Asus Rog Strix z390-e gaming
- 2 Crucial P2 drives on M.2 ports
- SMART and other drive tests reveal no problems at all
- The drive temperature's readings just for 1 drive are off in Mac OS & Windows (on both builds) :
https://preview.redd.it/m7zpoag1gzk51.jpg?width=361&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40a88b7b5268634b52f89d9ea5114a59da600166
https://preview.redd.it/ttjwy8i3gzk51.png?width=592&format=png&auto=webp&s=16664f012414b13ed1f605a3d95cdf4da568c758
This may not be related though so let's not necessarily get sidetracked by this lead. But maybe.
- Crucial software "Crucial Storage Executive" gives normal temperature readings though.
Finally, here is the error screen when I get it :
https://preview.redd.it/qaeb9905gzk51.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb7ca9868fce54c832818971854653b9f5ccad20
I'm looking for serious opinions on what could be causing this, and of course how to fix it.
Personally I don't believe the drive is in any trouble and this has more to do with a reading issue, but I'm not an expert.
Thank you so much 🙏🏼
I have a well versed background in IT, but I feel this sub would know significantly more about hard drives.
I am curious as to what could be failing with the hard drive. Just an old gaming rig that I am also using for data. Drives have to be 7 years old likely. My first assumption is that the drive is failing because for the last 8 months I have had to turn my computer off when I am done with it due to someone temporarily living in my office.
Sorry if this is a little long but I'm going to be very detailed and step by step how this has all happened.
I previously had 120Gb Windows SSD with 3 HDDs for storage. Upgraded to new Samsung 870 EVO SSD and installed new Windows 10, then began plugging in the old HDDs, assign their old drive letters, and taking permissions. Then assigned Documents/Pictures/Downloads etc folders to their locations on the primary storage HDD
First thing was a bit of slowness/hitching, especially when opening folders on the old drives, so I temporarily disabled Search/Indexing until cleaning out unnecessary files. So I detached the other HDD's except for my primary storage (Documents/Pictures etc) and started working on that.
Things were ok for a few days, but the HDD began hitching more and more when accessing folders/files. Finally, when I was working in Photoshop and went to save to Documents folder (D/mechanical drive), it completely froze to the point of needing hard shut down.
That's where things really began to get bad.
I was able to get back into Windows and my HDD/files were still there, so I thought all was ok to proceed. I then started plugging in my other drives, and noticed that their drive letter assignments were starting to get mixed up.
I rebooted a few times and changed Sata ports and reassigned drive letters to get them all as they were supposed to be, but the mixups got worse, then drives started not even getting detected. Then my primary storage HDD wasn't even pulling up, and my desktop and documents folders were throwing errors like (User/.../Desktop cannot be found).
Even worse, drives started not even appearing in BIOS after rebooting. I soon found that the only way to get them to reappear was to completely power down, unplug all cables, then plug everything back in. Power cycling HDDs..?
At this point:
- If ANY of these drives are connected after power down / unplug, they will appear normal in Windows for a few minutes. After looking through folders, they will eventually cause everything to freeze including Disk Manager and will disappear from File Explorer
- HDD activity in Task Manager goes to 100% with 0 read/write activity
- If I try to reboot, Windows will get stuck in an inifinite load (logo +spinner) screen until power down and unplugging drives
At this point, I started panicking and trying to backup my drives. All attempts failed:
- Copy+Paste from any of these drives works for a few minutes before freezing
- ChkDsk X: /f or
Hi everyone,
After recording a podcast episode and removing my USB microphone, my HP Envy laptop started whirring and clicking. It then crashed, exiting Adobe Audition. Ultimately, I lost my episode recording.
I have turned it off and on. I have removed the battery and tried to recover it that way.
Essentially, it turns on and allows me to log in. Once I see my desktop, it is very sluggish and often freezes. At this point, I just want to recover my files and save them to my external hard drive before it dies completely.
Once I copy the files, it usually freezes before I can transfer.
I have never had an issue with a hard drive failure before, so I don’t know how to ensure that I get my files safely without further damaging the computer.
Please help!!! Thank you so much!
Best, Adrienne
I see a lot of questions on this subreddit related to specific models of HDDs (ie. WD Reds, Blues, etc.) as well as Backblaze statistics so I'm guessing questions like what I'm about to ask are allowed but if not feel free to delete this.
I have a question about hard drive mounting and what effect, if any it has on disk failure.
I've been using a Dell T30 for my home NAS but am starting to outgrow it. I recently purchased a Fractal Designs R6 after many months of researching and appreciating the earlier versions. Once I got the case though and really started to dig into it I was surprised by how unsubstantial the drive mounts appeared to be.
Basically the drives attach to a tray and then the tray slides into the case on one side only. There's a flange that holds the tray on the back (and you can optionally screw in the rear as well) but the left side is completely unsupported. I can grab a mounted tray and easily move it up and down with my hand, even screwed in. Does this create a liability for the drive's overall lifespan as it spins and vibrates day after day, year after year? Are drives mounted in this fashion more prone to failure?
Wouldn't supporting the drive tray on 3 of 4 sides be preferable? I'm asking this here partly because I've seen this very case recommended on r/DataHoarder in the past and it surprised me a bit after I actually started to populate mine.
Am I being paranoid or do these "showy" drive mounting methods contribute to overall drive failures or problems?
I've heard controversial things about using [SMART] (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/what-smart-stats-indicate-hard-drive-failures/) to predict drive failure, but it still being accurate in predicting drive failure up to 77% of the time.
I've used crystaldiskinfo in the past, but is there some kind of software out there that reliably predicts the health/potential failure of a hard drive or SSD?
A couple days ago I posted about a possible failure of a hard drive in a secondary computer after trying to change graphics cards. I have in the mean time taken the HDD out of that computer and put it in my main gaming PC, and it works completely fine and all files accessible. I've tried almost everything I can think of to try it get the HDD to actually work on its intended PC without luck. Tried to boot with everything exactly the same as before trying to put the GPU in. Tried all four SATA slots. Tried all the cables that were interchangeable just in case I was using the wrong one. Tried booting up with Windows 10 bootdrive in the USB. I'm getting nowhere, and some family members are starting to get on my back for not having the PC working.
TL;DR: HDD isn't broke but keeps acting like it is. How fix?
My computer specs: Gigabyte Mobo with 6 core AMD processor. 16 gigs of Ballistic RAM 750ti Video card two separate 1TB hard drives WD Windows 7 Ultimate.
After shuffling hard drives around because I was trying to help my mom out by building her a new computer I popped her hard drive in with mine still in there and installed an operating system on the second hard drive. Computer was working fine. I accidentally gave her the wrong hard drive but she never hooked it up she just held on to it. Anyways, fast forward to a few days later I finally get it back and I plug in both of my hard drives, I had two 1T WD hard drives and when I went to boot it up it says
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
Literally NOTHING I do changes it. Everything I've looked up on the internet has been entirely useless to all degrees. After getting frustrated with it I decided to just reset everything. I unplugged all the hard drives, and the DVD drive, unplugged the sata cords from the Motherboard, took out the RAM, took out the video card and reset the CMOS I think is what it's called, the little chip you have to pop out and let sit for a few minutes.
After reassembling everything and making sure all the cables were secure I booted it back up and nothing changed at all. It recognizes all my drivers in the BIOS it recognizes everything fine. But it just keeps giving me the finger.
If anyone has any insight that would be great.
Got a new case and I'm using the same guts as my old PC but it is giving me a disk boot failure. I put in the windows 7 OS install disc i used but I'm to a page now that is asking me to install Windows 7 again. I really really really don't want to lose my stuff! Please tell me what i need to do!
I'm sure i missed a really critical step or am missing something simple. Thank you!!
Details that i think might help:
- I installed an OEM win7 OS builder pack
- moved a slot up for my graphics card
- first booted up without my optical drive (because i don't want to use it/new case doesn't have a slot)
Hi,
I've had an ongoing issue for a month that is confusing me. There are a bunch of little details that I feel might be of use, so I'll describe my problem.
First, basic specs:
Windows 7
1tb hdd
i5
8gb RAM
My computer has been crashing seemingly at random for a month or so. At first, it would always crash the same way: things would freeze onscreen -> BSOD -> "Hard Drive Disk Failure" message. Yet when I pressed the power button, the PC turned off, and pressing it again allowed it to function normally. Recently, it's started to crash differently, i.e. the screen remaining as it was before it crashed, just with everything frozen. Also, minidump files don't seem to be created, even though I changed the settings under Control Panel.
It is very possible this is due to imminent hard drive failure, and I've had this HDD for two years or so. About two weeks before this started happening, I opened my computer to check something, and I'm slightly paranoid I did something to the hard drive, whether static or hitting it too hard. I don't know if this just a coincidence, but what I DO know is that I installed CrystalDiskInfo shortly afterward, and it gave me a caution warning after this, due to Current Pending Sector Count and Uncorrectable Sector Count. Yet after a few weeks, I noticed it changed to giving me a healthy reading. See here. The Power on Count is almost entirely this past month; I leave the PC on almost all the time.
I don't believe it's malware, as I've done scans, but who knows.
I am leaning toward hard drive failure, but I'm not sure. I recall the computer crashing right when I died in a game (which led me to think that it crashed because it was trying to edit a stats file), but this didn't happen playing it subsequently. I even have a new hard drive in this room I could install, but I'm hesitant to until I know it isn't another cause.
Any help is appreciated.
So, I recently just got a Dell Inspiron from a friend and got it all hooked up the other day. I've been using it a lot this week and decided hey I'm going to mod GTA 4 so I did that and messed around (using trusted mod sites of course) and so forth. Well I got up the other day and turned my computer on and went and had breakfast and came back to the dreaded blue screen of death. The computer had given me no problems whatsoever until this point. So I had no choice but to force shutdown and restart. After it powered up again it worked and I was able to use it. So I thought that was random. And it worked fine. It wasn't slow or anything. Now tonight I got home from work and was going to download a game I wanted on Steam and the store wouldn't load. So I was like ok I'll let it load while I eat dinner. So I come back to it and it's siting there on a black screen saying "hard disk drive failure". Why it is telling me this I have no idea. I don't think this could be a virus as I have AVG on the computer and used trusted modding sites for GTA 4. So why this message is here beats me. I don't know what's wrong or if I did something but any suggestions would help. I also don't know if the blue screen I got a couple days ago is related to this. But after force shutdown the computer is working fine again. So please any help as to why my computer is telling me this all of a sudden. The previous owner had it for 2 years with no problems. Thanks in advance.
Edit: Some folks at r/techsupport suggested removing the battery and the power plug in for a few minutes and pressing on the power button for about 20-30 seconds and that did the trick.
A few weeks ago my hard disk started failing, first it was BOSD's, up until constant clicking sounds and the BIOS not recognizing the HD.. I was already warming up to the idea of losing most of my data, but I was hoping I could run on Linux on an external HDD for the time being. I hadn't been able to install Linux on the ED because of the holiday season, and today I was about to do just that but after a series of errors the laptop screen doesn't turn on at all.
First the computer booted up without the clicking sounds and I got a screen telling me if I wanted to check the drive, I skipped that and I got a BSOD.
I did a forced shut down, and I got the message saying there was no hard drive to boot from, fine.
But the third time around the computer screen doesn't turn on at all. I can hear the fan, and the keyboard LEDs are on.. I tried booting from a disc, and while I can hear the drive reading the disc, nothing appears on the screen.
Any ideas?
