Question: Few days ago my Asus FX504GE laptop crashed (freeze with sound looping) while I’m running a game for a few minutes (installed on D: Drive), and I had to hard restart it. But after that, I can’t seem to find my D: Drive. It’s not there on Disk Management, and it’s not detected in BIOS as well.
This crash problem actually had happened sometimes before but I thought it’s not a biggy since nothing bad happened afterwards, and I read that it won’t damage any hardware.
I don’t really want to open the laptop since it’s still in warranty. Are there any possible “soft” solution to this?
Specification:
Asus FX504GEWindows 10 HomeCPU – Intel i7-8750H 2.20GHzRAM – 8GB RAMGPU – NVidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti 4GBStorage – 128GB M.2 NVMe SSD + 1TB 5400rpm SATA HDD (the undetected one)Steps that I have done:
Checking disk management & Rescan diskScan for hardware changes in Device ManagerChecking BIOSP.S.
I currently can’t go to ASUS Center since it was temporarily closed as precaution for Covid-19 spread.All my college assignments are stored there, so I really appreciate all helps. Thanks
Answer:Drives don’t have to “click” before dying.
I had a 5 week 3TB old drive go from seemingly perfect to absolute dead in about 36 hours.
I had a solid state drive go from 100% to dead in the act of just turning the system on again.
Drives die. All of them.
Sometimes you get a bit of a warning. Sometimes not.
But the only way to really protect your data is a good backup plan.