Is my HDD interfering with my internet connection?

Hello, this may seem really odd but i recently upgraded from a HDD to a SSD. I installed Windows OS onto my SSD and made it my boot drive and wiped my HDD to use as a secondary storage. Before i did this i checked the condition of my HDD with a program called Speed Fan. The status of the drive read "Read Failure". So i presume it was on its way out, but was still functional. After i installed my new SSD and installed Windows OS to it, i reinstalled my HDD and wiped it clean. After doing so i was getting a message on start up saying "Raid Volume: None defined". I ignored this as Windows continued to load up like normal. However i had a problem trying to connect to my internet (via WiFi). At first it worked. The next day i turned on my PC and had no internet. It wasn't my IPS as it was working on my phone and Xbox One. I have my computer hooked up to one monitor and one TV. I noticed that the connection would work with only my monitor plugged in, but not with my TV. I tried I tried a number of things including turning it off and on. Uninstalling drivers and reinstalling/updating them.

I tried a number on properties changes including changing the IP address and DNS server. I also tried a number of commands in Command Prompt as Admin which i found on the internet while searching for help. I even tried the Windows Recovery option. However none of this worked. It was only until i unplugged my HDD and just booted up my PC with just the SSD installed that i got it to work on both the monitor and TV. Also the Raid Volume: None defined message on startup had disappeared. Is it possible my HDD got corrupted when i wiped it and was somehow interfering with my internet connection, if so how would this be possible? (Especially because of the fact that it would only work on the monitor and not the TV). Also what does that "Raid Volume: None defined message on start up mean?

One last question and this might seem like a stupid one, but is my HDD fully broken now and do i need to replace it?

Any help would be very much appreciated, thanks.

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billsey

If I were guessing I'd think the failing HDD was creating all kinds of noise on the power, and that was mucking with the M.2 slot for the WiFi. The RAID volume thing could have either been from a corrupted drive or more likely from the onboard SATA being in RAID mode instead of AHCI. That will often mark the drive as a single drive RAID member.

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DeeSull

My PC specs are:

Acer Aspire M3910 M5910 DX4840 H57H-AM2 Motherboard.
4x8gb DDR3 1333mhz Ram.
AMD HD 7770 1GB GPU.
Intel i3 550 CPU.
600GB WD Blue HDD 5400RPM.
240GB Kingston SSD.
300w power supply.

billsey

If I were guessing I'd think the failing HDD was creating all kinds of noise on the power, and that was mucking with the M.2 slot for the WiFi. The RAID volume thing could have either been from a corrupted drive or more likely from the onboard SATA being in RAID mode instead of AHCI. That will often mark the drive as a single drive RAID member.

DeeSull

Ok, thanks for the help. I tried changing the onboard SATA from Raid to AHCI and got a blue screen saying your computer ran into a problem. Why is that?