Dying Hard Drive?

[seumasbeathan]

The last few days I have started having some real problems with my pc, every few minutes my computer will run so so slow, web pages will take about 2 minutes to load and if I open my documents etc It will take about 30/40 seconds to load.

Could this be my hard drive? It is about 6 years old I think and according to HDDLife it has had over a years of use

Cheers

 

[VengeanceUK]

tried checking the disk for errors?

 

[seumasbeathan]

Yeah I used Seatools and did a quick scan and it came back fine :/ I shall do a full scan tonight

 

[VengeanceUK]

Yeah I used Seatools and did a quick scan and it came back fine :/ I shall do a full scan tonight

problem is quick scan doesn't delve deep enough, it doesn't check unoccupied space or the actual disk surface itself, just looks at contiguous files and used spaces i believe

 

[AverageNinja]

I don't think it is the HDD. No idea what it could be.
But if it is your HDD, my deepest condoleances man!

 

[seumasbeathan]

I don't think it is the HDD. No idea what it could be.
But if it is your HDD, my deepest condoleances man!

What makes you think it's not the hdd?

 

[VengeanceUK]

does the hdd make any "abnormal" noise during this slow period?

 

[seumasbeathan]

Not and different that it usually is which is pretty loud

 

[jamesriley94]

Time for a fresh windows install i think...

 

[seumasbeathan]

I did a fresh install only a week ago

 

[VengeanceUK]

in that case backup what you can and search out a replacement

out of curiosity, what hdd is it and what is it used for?

 

[seumasbeathan]

Everything seems to be fine now :/ I will see how good it is for the next few days

 

[AverageNinja]

What makes you think it's not the hdd?

Well, I've had experience with harddisks dying, more than one. And I would never see it coming, I've experienced this 4 times (old drives) and all of the time it would never decrease in performance, but just die without decrease in performance. Could just be my bad luck though.

 

[jamesriley94]

I do have a weird drive in a laptop.
I bought the laptop because it was an amazing deal and the laptop used to be one of the display models from PC world, so not brand new, but not exactly used at all either, and it has no marks whatsoever on it.

The hard drive does sometimes make weird noises though. This doesnt affect performance whatsoever, but it's been like that since I bought it. I'm prepared for it to die and if it does it wont be a huge loss, but as it's been running for a couple months like this, in my experience they dont just break straight away.

The 3 HDDs I've had in the past have all died more or less instantly. Occasionally I've had an extra hours use out of it, but not long

 

[yassarikhan786]

The HDD might have been having issues reading files (i.e. trouble with the read head). Let us know if you experience any other issues.

 

[Lollipop]

Try using a program called Harddisk sentinel.

 

[VengeanceUK]

Try using a program called Harddisk sentinel.

recommendation came in handy did it? lol

 

[seumasbeathan]

Update : Everything seems to be fine now, I did a full scan with seatools and it was fine so I don't know what that was

 

[Ajay]

If you have a hiren disk laying around boot into the disk and run the hardrive check it should scan the whole drive outside windows and tell you if you have bad sectors.