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A Disk Read Error Occured, Does that Mean My Boot Drive Died? or Can My Other Disks be the Cause?

I can't check it one by one right now because this is my child brother's PC and I'm not at home.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It depends on the error. No way to say without more information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So we're you using the computer when the error occurred? If yes, it was probably the other drive or it was a minor read error. Are you using Windows? If yes, you could do a check disk in command prompt (chkdsk) on both drives with the parameters to repair the repair and recover.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know, it wasn't me using it.

But upon troubleshooting it (reseating most of the parts), it's okay now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When you get a chance to, I would run something like CrystalDiskInfo. That app shows you SMART data (think of SMART like vitals for a hard drive) from the drive. Make sure the drive health shows “Good” or “Okay”