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Last night I had a steam update yesterday which felt very glitchy and weird and it made steam very unresponsive. This morning I booted my pc to find that my game drive didn't initialise. Any help would be great.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Not specifically Steam, more likely the drive was already on it's way out and any hdd operations would cause the same.
I did one of those smart scans a few weeks ago and the health on all my drives was good.Originally Posted by kalniel
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Post hoc ergo propter hoc.
MaddAussie (11-09-2016)
SMART scanning can't predict many causes of hdd failure.
That's a shame. Is there any way to get data off the drive?
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Probably not but don't worry, you can use your backup
Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack
off a horse and helping your uncle jack off a horse.
Ohh god I hadn't thought of that /s
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Although technically possible it's highly unlikely that Steam itself would have specifically caused this kind of failure. More likely is any kind of intense enough hard drive activity would have eventually killed it. It just happened to be Steam in this case.
Best of luck.
Taking "is it possible ..." at face value, I'd say yes, since the alternative is that it's impossible. I'm not a low-level coding expert, or even anything resembling a shadow of one, but I'd suspect that code that could get access to drive controller microcode could, potentially, as a deliberate and malicious act, push drive mechanics beyond tolerance limits, abd cause damage. After all, alleged CIA-inspired cyber attacks of that type allegedly pushed Iranian nuclear refining centrifuges beyond their limits and, allegedly, wrecked them. Allegedly.
But the chances of Steam doing that deliberately? Zero, I'd think. The chances of someone managing to sneak it past Steam and use them as a carrier? Minimal? And if they had, there'd be large numbers of such instances.
The chances of a drive picking that moment, rather than 24 hours earlier or later? Pretty good. So "pissibke"? Yeah. But I think far less likely than straight, unfortunate coincidence.
In other words, what Deus said. Or smarg, though I'd say it may be cum hoc ergo propter hoc rather than post hoc ergo propter hoc.
I hate how many latin speakers we have lol I had to watch a west wing clip for the explanation of deus's one.
I got some advice from madduck to replace the pcb which is what I will try.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
You must watch more West Wing its excellent!
Isn't salad what food eats??
I'll give it a go at some point but I still need to see house of cards too.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
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