I have a desktop computer that was built by Micro Center in 2015. There are 2 drives installed. A 250GB SSD C: drive and a 3TB HDD D: Drive. Over the past few months the cursor and keyboard have started to freeze and everything becomes unresponsive. I do a manual shut down by pressing and holding the power button until it shuts down, wait about 15 seconds and re start. Everything would work perfectly until it would happen again a few days later. I was concerned that this could be a possible hard drive failure so I bought a WD - Easystore 8TB external USB 3.0 Hard Drive at Best Buy on sale for $150 and backed up all my important files. I am a hobbyist photographer so the bulk of my storage is taken up by photos as well as old video tapes that I am digitizing. I keep these stored on the D: drive. There is approximately 600 GB stored on the 3TB drive. The C drive has 2/3 free space available.
A few days ago I went to email a photo but discovered that the D: drive was not listed on my File Explorer. Otherwise the computer was working fine. I did a "RE-Start" and the D: Drive magically re-appeared. This has happened several times since then. Anyone want to take a stab at a diagnosis and solution?
If it helps, here is a list of the components from the original build with the only change being the OS which is now Windows 10.
Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz LGA 1150 Boxed Processor
ASRock Z97 Extreme6 Socket LGA 1150 ATX Intel Motherboard (DVI, HDMI and Diplayport)
MS OEM WIN 8.1 64 BIT ENG 1 PK DVD
LG GH24NSC0B 24x Internal DVD Rewritable SATA Drive
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) CL9 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit (Two 8GB Memory Modules)
CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES 300R CASE
CRUCIAL 250 GB MX200 2.5 SATA SSD
TOSHIBA 3TB 3.5' 7200
Thermaltake TR2 Series 600 Watt ATX Power Supply
Logitech M510 Wireless Laser Mouse
Microsoft Wired Keyboard 200
A few days ago I went to email a photo but discovered that the D: drive was not listed on my File Explorer. Otherwise the computer was working fine. I did a "RE-Start" and the D: Drive magically re-appeared. This has happened several times since then. Anyone want to take a stab at a diagnosis and solution?
If it helps, here is a list of the components from the original build with the only change being the OS which is now Windows 10.
Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz LGA 1150 Boxed Processor
ASRock Z97 Extreme6 Socket LGA 1150 ATX Intel Motherboard (DVI, HDMI and Diplayport)
MS OEM WIN 8.1 64 BIT ENG 1 PK DVD
LG GH24NSC0B 24x Internal DVD Rewritable SATA Drive
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB DDR3-1600 (PC3-12800) CL9 Dual Channel Desktop Memory Kit (Two 8GB Memory Modules)
CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES 300R CASE
CRUCIAL 250 GB MX200 2.5 SATA SSD
TOSHIBA 3TB 3.5' 7200
Thermaltake TR2 Series 600 Watt ATX Power Supply
Logitech M510 Wireless Laser Mouse
Microsoft Wired Keyboard 200