I keep running chkdsk on my HDD (it's a disk for games) but it keep failing in one way or another and need to it ever time it starts up.
I've got several pastebins of chkdsk I've done, these are the logs:
This is a CrystalDiskInfo
It also fails to show up on the disk defragmenter
The model is a WDC WD1001FALS-00J7B1
Windows OS Version is 10.0.19042 Build 19042
I'm not fully sure what I should be doing here and I'm honestly feeling quite lost. And yes it won't run my games correctly I get errors as well.
2 Answers
You're probably lucky it doesn't show up on the disk defragger; because defragging a drive in that state would probably kill it stone dead.
The drive is failing.
As it's only got games on it, you'd do best just replacing the drive & reinstalling the games. You could try a rescue copy, but for replacable data it's not worth the effort.
If you have saves on there, which you shouldn't they should be on C:\ then you could try copying them off first.
btw, chkdsk doesn't care at all about your data. Its job is to get the drive back into a state it can continue to function, not to rescue data. It also doesn't really have the concept of 'giving up'. Each time it tries to fix a failing drive it's going to damage something else in the attempt.
1Your hard drive is failing and should be replaced. Back up any information on it, and then make arrangements to replace it.
There is not any practical way to save a hard drive and make it good. That is why I say to replace it.
