Sudden Slow HDD Speeds

[RadeonHDx]

So a few days ago my 1TB HDD gave me a SMART warning after months of not getting them (used to get them but had no problem and they went away). Then the next day (the day I won the AT compo funnily enough) I turned on my rig to find that I get a SMART warning from the BIOS telling me to replace the drive. So I went and got another smaller drive which was only 500GB but thankfully I still had stuff that I could delete and then I thought I would be able to easilly transfer the data over from one drive to the other...

I was wrong, at first it was bareable with about 15MB/s transfer speeds but it then began to go down, and down, and down until it was just 100KB/s, and to transfer 380GB it would take literally weeks.

RamboOC had suggested that it might be that the drive is trying to reallocate lots of bad sectors, any help is help .

Also I've tried Acronis and it didn't work aswell as just a simple copy and paste job in safe mode.

 

[TPC]

well 15mb/s is already deadly slow... seems like your HDD is really dying, how old is it? And have you tried to defrag it?

 

[RamboOC]

right click on the broken hdd, click on properties, go to the tools tab, click on "check now". tick the "scan and attempt the recovery of bad sectors" and click on start

run this and upload a screenshot here that shows the amount of bad sectors
http://hddscan.com/

 

[RadeonHDx]

well 15mb/s is already deadly slow... seems like your HDD is really dying, how old is it? And have you tried to defrag it?

It's not particularly old but it has been to the last few builds I've don't just so I can install some files that wouldn't fit on a regular thumb drive. Its about a year old and I have been running weekly defrags on it for the last year

right click on the broken hdd, click on properties, go to the tools tab, click on "check now". tick the "scan and attempt the recovery of bad sectors" and click on start

run this and upload a screenshot here that shows the amount of bad sectors
http://hddscan.com/

I've started the error checking from windows but it seems to be stuck on SDs/SIDs? And I'll run that when the error checking is done (if it does) Thanks guys, massive help .

 

[RizeAllard]

It's not particularly old but it has been to the last few builds I've don't just so I can install some files that wouldn't fit on a regular thumb drive. Its about a year old and I have been running weekly defrags on it for the last year



I've started the error checking from windows but it seems to be stuck on SDs/SIDs? And I'll run that when the error checking is done (if it does) Thanks guys, massive help .

Try HD Sentinel it will told you what is the problem with your drive and how much time you have approximatly to make a backup from it...

Its a very use full program. It has a freeware version and its maybe enough for you. If you want a full version you will find it on every "t" site...