Hi,

I’ve got this laptop at the end of 2020 and my D: drive was an offer by the shop I bought the PC at. They said it was an SSD (so is my C: drive). I found out it’s actually an HDD (Model ST1000LM048) and it’s been disconnecting itself (?) after hearing some noises.

Troubleshoot:

• I ran a chkdsk already, no bad sectors or anything, everything is fine.
• Checked S.M.A.R.T. and everything comes up okay too.
• Apparently leaving it alone for a while eases up the burden on it (?)

Other useful Info:

• The laptop is a Clevo NH55AFW AKA XMG Apex.
• I already bought a new SSD to replace it anyways. Luckily it’s dying on prime day so I was able to snag a good price for a Samsung ssd.
• HDD is our of warranty. Apparently it ended on the 22nd of Sept. 2022
• I had a bootable USB drive with windows XP and a bunch of utilities (can’t recall it’s name Hiren’s Boot CD but apparently there’s a new version. Downloading it now) but I can’t find it at the moment.

Full context: I never really noticed any slowdowns tbh, but I would hear this small clink from time to time. Never really cared too much about it. Until recently, about 2~3 months ago, I was playing something and the clink noise was constant. To the point where all the stuff I had on my D: drive was non responsive. The game I was playing crashed, my libraries are stored on D (Documents, desktop etc) so anything I tried to open from those drives would just be stuck there forever. After restarting it was fixed but I knew something was up then.

After looking at the drive ID I realized I was tricked, it’s apparently an HDD from Seagate, (Model ST1000LM048-2E7172) not that I mind too much since it was free.

Yesterday it was just unbearable. I booted up the PC everything was fine, I was playing StardewValley out of my D drive of all things, and the noise came back constantly again. The game hung and again I wasn’t able to do anything. I restarted the PC and while booting up I was still able to hear the noise. After a good minute it stopped and my PC did boot up. But the D: drive was nowhere to be found… I then powered my PC off and left it alone for a while. When I came back it did work and I transferred some useful stuff to my C: drive so whatever is left there I don’t mind losing.

Sorry for the long post, and I apologize if I’m posting on the wrong place, I’m not aware of a TechSupport lemmy community at the moment.