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NoOne · 11-27-2018, 05:34 PM

go get a free program that can access the SMART feature of your HDD. (ssd's have it too, future ref). it can tell you for sure what is going wrong and how best to deal with it.

crystaldiskinfo is one.. they even have a "portable" option -- no install required, doesn't create folders in your user directories etc etc -- clean, small, just delete if you don't want or stash with other programs and keep.

my guess is c5/6 -- unrecoverable sectors related.

your sectors are going bad and they can no longer be replaced. so, you are losing disk space. it can happen slowly or quickly. no idea based on limited info.

more than likely you will have no problems backing up your files. if you don't have a second drive, use cloud storage/email storage ASAP. if you have a second drive, stop using the bad one immediately. the less you use it, the fewer the opportunities for more sectors to crap out on you. even disconnect it while you work out what to do or search on internet for answers etc. make sure it doesn't power on will help preserve it.

for reference -- i had a hdd going bad too... it lasted another ~2 years before completely not working. lol, those last couple years it crawled... maybe 2mb/s instead of 80-150 depending on physical location on disk. more than enough to play videos and music without noticing, so that's what it was used for.

since you have a backup folder and a saved game folder -- 2X as likely to get it done too. focus on the root files and the autosave directory -- heck, you have 4X chance of saving your league. maybe you lose some of the 10's of thousand htm/txt files? no big deal there. delete the corrupted ones.

11-27-2018, 05:34 PM	#8
NoOne Banned Join Date: Apr 2015 Posts: 7,273 Infractions: 0/1 (3)	go get a free program that can access the SMART feature of your HDD. (ssd's have it too, future ref). it can tell you for sure what is going wrong and how best to deal with it. crystaldiskinfo is one.. they even have a "portable" option -- no install required, doesn't create folders in your user directories etc etc -- clean, small, just delete if you don't want or stash with other programs and keep. my guess is c5/6 -- unrecoverable sectors related. your sectors are going bad and they can no longer be replaced. so, you are losing disk space. it can happen slowly or quickly. no idea based on limited info. more than likely you will have no problems backing up your files. if you don't have a second drive, use cloud storage/email storage ASAP. if you have a second drive, stop using the bad one immediately. the less you use it, the fewer the opportunities for more sectors to crap out on you. even disconnect it while you work out what to do or search on internet for answers etc. make sure it doesn't power on will help preserve it. for reference -- i had a hdd going bad too... it lasted another ~2 years before completely not working. lol, those last couple years it crawled... maybe 2mb/s instead of 80-150 depending on physical location on disk. more than enough to play videos and music without noticing, so that's what it was used for. since you have a backup folder and a saved game folder -- 2X as likely to get it done too. focus on the root files and the autosave directory -- heck, you have 4X chance of saving your league. maybe you lose some of the 10's of thousand htm/txt files? no big deal there. delete the corrupted ones. Last edited by NoOne; 11-27-2018 at 05:37 PM.