Games Crashing on Startup
Games Crashing on Startup
Occasionally, games saved on my secondary HDD fail when starting up. I launch them and they either load briefly or I reach the menus. Then a notification appears in the bottom right corner asking "HDD (F):" to decide what to do with removable drives. Shortly after, the game crashes to desktop. This issue occurs with Steam titles such as The Witcher and Microsoft store games like Forza. If anyone has experienced this and knows a solution, please share it. Thanks.
I've experienced similar issues before with multiple 1TB drives in a hot-swap bay; they would either lose data or power. Once I switched to a solid connection, everything worked fine. Could you be losing your data connection? Try using a different data cable as recommended by others.
I simply unplugged and plugged it back in, and the games are now functioning. It might be a short-term solution. If I obtain a different cable, I’ll give it a try. Thanks.