So i have 2 hardrives, one being an SSD and the other being a normal one. When I turn off or reboot my computer, it gives me this Ameritrend black screen with some info, but none of it helps my identify the actual problem. It tells me my Hardrive is about to fail, and tells me to backup my hardrive as soon as possible. So i've done that. My question is, how do I know which of my 2 hardrives is the one failing? I can't see anything in the warning screen that identifies which hardrive, and my PC struggles to pull from both C and D drive, although i'm not sure if thats even relevant because i dont know which data is on which drive, or if they both are on the main drive and the SDD does something else, idk.
Is there a way to identify which of the two hardrives is failing, and when I to identify it and replace it, will I lose my windows 10 operating system?
I'm using an external hardrive to back data up, but its just copy paste, i dont know how to do a true system restore or a true "back up".
Any help is appreciated. I've only had this computer a couple years, so i'm very surprised to see a message saying its failing, but it is in fact struggling to do much of anything now, entire folders seem to just be corrupted all of a sudden, so this "Failure" is happening extremely fast. I don't think a virus has anything to do with it, at least none of the viruses i've seen, I'm not seeing any significant warning signs of that, nor have I downloaded anything sketchy anytime recently. So I do think the SMART system might be actually correct.
Is there a way to identify which of the two hardrives is failing, and when I to identify it and replace it, will I lose my windows 10 operating system?
I'm using an external hardrive to back data up, but its just copy paste, i dont know how to do a true system restore or a true "back up".
Any help is appreciated. I've only had this computer a couple years, so i'm very surprised to see a message saying its failing, but it is in fact struggling to do much of anything now, entire folders seem to just be corrupted all of a sudden, so this "Failure" is happening extremely fast. I don't think a virus has anything to do with it, at least none of the viruses i've seen, I'm not seeing any significant warning signs of that, nor have I downloaded anything sketchy anytime recently. So I do think the SMART system might be actually correct.
