A few hours ago I had 50 Steam games installed and still a total of 1300 GB left on my HDD:s.
Now I have 8 Steam games installed and still a total of 1300 GB left on my HDD:s.
42 of the lost games was on my E:/ drive
The other 8 on my C:/ (Root) drive
The Steam folder in my E:/ drive is gone, and I whenever I re-install the game, Steam does not recognize the others, because there's no frickin folder nor files. So how the fuck do I still have 1300 GB left when holy jesus 42 games disepeared, [B]where are they![/B]
I'm scared and I need help. My 250 KB/s Internet speed took me years to download all that.
Have you tried searching for some related folder/file names on E:/? Recycling bin?
Use Windirstat to locate the consumed HDD space.
[QUOTE=DrTaxi;49592475]Have you tried searching for some related folder/file names on E:/? Recycling bin?[/QUOTE]
Searched for folder names, and several specific ***.exe files, on both HDD:s. No results.
[editline]23rd January 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=reedbo;49592504]Use Windirstat to locate the consumed HDD space.[/QUOTE]
Doing it now, takes some time.
[editline]23rd January 2016[/editline]
According to Windirstat it's all gone...
[editline]23rd January 2016[/editline]
WAIT. The "Show unknown" says there's like 400GB somewhere.
[editline]23rd January 2016[/editline]
SpaceSniffer 1.3 says:
[QUOTE]WARN 23:13:12 - Unable to examine E:\Program Files (x86) (The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. - code 1392)[/QUOTE]
may need to run a check disk
also, a picture of disk management could help. Could be some absurd partitioning error or something?
Done it twice. But lets try that again.
[editline]23rd January 2016[/editline]
I have 4 SATA ports on my motherboard (2 are plugged in), could the orders/placements of the HDD:s depend on this? Because I may have switched them from their previous locations.
No, as long as its booting the proper device the boot order should not matter.
I would question the integrity of the disk and the file system. I recommend running chkdsk, and do an overall check on the health of the disk using a tool like Smartmontools, gsmartcontrol, speedfan and obtaining the SMART attribs. Post them here if you're unsure what you're looking at.
Please also a screenshot of your diskmgmt screen.
After 11 hours of harddrive checking that verified over 6 million files, it's done. A folder named "Steam" has appeared on the E:/ drive. It's supposed to be called "SteamLibrary" so I re-named it and restarted steam. All the 400 GB of games are now in place. The 'Unknown' space in WinDirStat is gone, so it was the "Steamapps" folder.
But there's still a problem: Everytime I restart my computer, I have to redo everything.
[editline]24th January 2016[/editline]
Tried several partition tools, no errors.
All three analyze methods on Speedfan says no errors.
All I've done is moving all my hardware components into another PC chassi, so the SATA connectors was put in different positions, nothing else.
Remains a mystery.
Might want to take this opportunity to get a new drive and backup your games on there. 500GB HDDs aren't expensive anymore (or get something bigger for far better price/performance).
The funny part is that I bought this 1TB HDD 2 weeks ago for 85 Euro.
My PC case supports 9 HDD:s (Corsair Obsidian 900D), but my motherboard only takes 4. Always wanted to use an SLI-Bridge so perhaps a new motherboard would be my next purchase.
[QUOTE=The bird Man;49596727]The funny part is that I bought this 1TB HDD 2 weeks ago for 85 Euro.
My PC case supports 9 HDD:s (Corsair Obsidian 900D), but my motherboard only takes 4. Always wanted to use an SLI-Bridge so perhaps a new motherboard would be my next purchase.[/QUOTE]
Mechanical HDDs can fail at any time. Age does not matter. I would get it replaced on warranty.
I'm not sure if it helps, but to let you know you're not alone; I've had Steam 'forget' a lot of my games. Some of which it seemed to uninstall by itself, but the majority still existed in their folders, Steam just required them installing again so it could search for 'already existing' files. It's happened twice to me, after I've woken my computer up from sleep, but it's very rare.
[QUOTE=voltlight;49596978]I'm not sure if it helps, but to let you know you're not alone; I've had Steam 'forget' a lot of my games. Some of which it seemed to uninstall by itself, but the majority still existed in their folders, Steam just required them installing again so it could search for 'already existing' files. It's happened twice to me, after I've woken my computer up from sleep, but it's very rare.[/QUOTE]
Happened a few time for me aswell, only for alternative installation directories. So this issue was a big suprise for me, because I was used to fix my issue with that method.
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