Need Help With Hard Drive Problem

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Hey :)

I have two internal hardrives, a 320gig (C) and an 80gig (D).

Suddenly i started getting the following error message:

"Windows was unable to save all the data for file D:/<file name here>. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere."

And everytime i turned my pc on, during the start up a blue screen came up which said

"Checking File System on D

The type is NTSF

One of your drives needs to be checked for consistency, you may cancel this check but is it is strongly recommended"

I was going to reformat my pc so this error gave me further reason to do so, i saved any files i wanted to save on an external hardrive.

I reformatted the 320gig and deleted the partition in the 80gig, Once I had got the pc working again after installing drivers, programs etc I started putting all the files i saved back on.

It was all working fine, then when I put more data on the D drive the error message came back nd it asked to do the check every time i turned my pc on, but if i allowed it to do the check i would not be able to access the D Drive once logged in so i kept cancelling it.

Therefore I gathered that this error was occuring because i was putting too much information on the D Drive, so I started deleting files I didnt need because trying to transfer them to the C drive was incredibly slow and even deleting them took a very long time as my pc has started running really slow.

This made the pc faster but did not solve the problem, so i felt i was forced to delete some stuff i wanted to keep. I did so but then when I restarted my pc I could not access the D drive whether i cancelled the check or not and have tried turning off my computer and turning it back on many times but I still cant access the D Drive it just says "could not be found, right click properties and check the location is correct"

So I feel now that my only option is to delete the partition and then make sure in future that I do not put too much information on the D Drive but then I will lose files on the D Drive that I have put on since reformatting which I really do not want to lose.

So i was wondering if anybody has any suggestions as to how I can fix this problem without losing the information on the D Drive or if there is a another reason why my D Drive is giving me problems other than the reason I have come to assume. Ive tried researching about this error but the solutions to the problem rather dont apply to me or have not worked.

Cheers. Ash.
 
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Your D hard drive sounds like its dying. How old is it? In warranty? You might want to look at buying a new drive if its not.

You can look using google for the manufacturers (what brand is it?) hard drive tool which will tell you if the drive is nackered.
 
Your PC is putting data in the Hard Drives cache and then not being able to write it to the actual disk itself (could be several reasons for this) and it is therefore being lost.

As above, sounds like it is on the way out :(
 
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