Hard Drive Randomly Fails

[thehunter1320]

every once in a while my secondary HDD likes to erase everything on itself after i restart my PC and i have no idea why... and other cases of this or resources to help prevent this? it's a 160 GB western digital

thanks

 

[BT7990]

You can check your machines event logs for related errors and also might run the WD diagnostic utilities to check drive health.

 

[Paperlantern]

yeah the drive may be failing, like the FAT is corrupting