Just in the past 24 hours, I've had my laptop internal storage drive (D drive, so not the one it boots off of) start to hang on certain media files and then it will outright disappear from file explorer. Trying to run disc cleanup or defrag causes the same issue: hang and then disappearance and only reappearing upon a system reboot.
I suspect this means the drive is failing and I'm going to need to replace it. Fine, rather a $150 problem than a motherboard failure.
I guess my question is two-fold: am I right in assuming this drive has a short life left to live? and question 2: what are my odds of actually being able to rescue the data off this drive after I swap in the new one?
I suspect this means the drive is failing and I'm going to need to replace it. Fine, rather a $150 problem than a motherboard failure.
I guess my question is two-fold: am I right in assuming this drive has a short life left to live? and question 2: what are my odds of actually being able to rescue the data off this drive after I swap in the new one?