missingtime

Hello, recently my hard drive has began acting strangely. While playing games that require a lot of power from my gpu, the hard drive will click and make spinning-up noises repeatedly until it disconnects. Once this happens, the game freezes and my computer tells me that the hard drive was removed. I must then reset my computer to regain use of the drive. This does not happen for every game. Is my drive simply failing? or is there something that could possibly be done? The drive only makes the noises shortly before disconnecting and the connections seem to be good. Thank you for your replies