My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the desktop and taskbar.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      22·
      8 months ago

      I was not fucking around 😂.
      It started to sound like someone put a baseball card on a bike wheel and I had it packed full of mostly TV shows and moves I didn’t want to download again lol.

      • Gormadt
        12·
        8 months ago

        Some of your data may have still been borked BTW

        It’s best practice to maintain a backup

        I’m better at it than I used to be but unfortunately I lost a lot of data to learn that lesson

        My drive started ticking a long time ago, I thought I successfully saved my data but when I dug through the drive a bunch of directories were full of broken files

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
    11·
    8 months ago

    When you click on shortcuts and the path was not found and suddenly common windows DLL are simply missing. RIP.