Woah...some freaking stuff going on(games disspearing?)

[miksanity]

Hey guys, i just noticed this for the second time, im pretty freaked out...this is the case: I have a 250gig WD hard drive, my games keep disappearing off it... like ill come out of a game, and notice my doom3 icon is gone..then when i click it, it says " problem with shortcut". This also happened for two of my hitman games...GHOSTS OR WHAT?!

Bad sectors or soemthing? what do you guys thing?

 

[Dr. Spankenstein]

Please take some time to fill in your System Specs.

You say this happens when you exit a game, or is the game crashing on you?

 

[miksanity]

X2 4400 @ 2.6 @ 1.45
Motherboard: Abit AT8 32x
Cooling: 2 Nzxt case fans, 1 insane thermaltake fan, Z-9500
Memory: 1 gig pc 3200
Video Card: ATI x850xt Platinum Edition
Harddisk: 250 gig SATA 2 3 GB/s
CD/DVD Drive: dual layer burner @ 16x
CRT/LCD Model: 20" widescreen Samsung 206BW
Case: Nzxt Apollo ORANGE
Sound Card: onboard (WANT AUZENTECH PRELUDE!!)
PSU: OCZ GameXStream 700W
Software: Windows home



I left GTA san andreas, i look and doom 3 is off my hdd, this also happened with 2 of my hitman games. gta san andreas had a bug and crashed because the disk wasnt in the drive, and boom, doom 3 just leaves my comp...hmmmm

 

[Dr. Spankenstein]

O.K., so now we get to what I believed at first. The crashes are corrupting the files.

When is the last time you ran a defrag of your HDD? Are you sure you have your CPU underclocked?

Any error messages pop up after the crashes? Had a peek at the Event Viewer (Control Panel>Administrator Tools> Event Viewer>System log & Application log) for more clues.

 

[pepsi71ocean]

check the smart status of your hard drive, and download WD checkup tools and check the status of your drive, it could be dieing. I lost a WD drive due to heat problems, same thing happened to me.