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Hi,
Would like to seek advice on the state of a Western Digital (Black?) 2 TB HDD (roughly 2 years old) which seems to be failing.
My storage system is set up such that an SSD is the primary drive while I have the WD hard drive and another 1 TB Samsung drive (5 years old) as secondary drives. I've installed Windows 7 on the SSD while games and other programs (Chrome, Desktop data etc) are installed or allocated on the Western Digital.
The symptoms on the drive started 2 days ago and are as follows:
- The first thing that was wrong was my desktop icons took ages to load (previously was instant, now takes up to 1 min plus)
- Maybe 5x significantly slower opening of some folders (the files within takes time to display properly), compared to opening files and folders on the Samsung (more or less instant, the WD loaded instantly in the past as well)
- Tried loading some games, takes significantly more time to load but do load in the end (e.g. Far Cry 4 from main menu in to the game)
- Steam games unable to update, receives Disk Write Error
- Chkdsk automatically started on Bootup for the WD drive and kept running everytime my computer reboots
I've tried the following fixes:
1. In cmd.exe, fsutil dirty query d: and found that my D drive was "Dirty"
2. Ran chkdsk /f /r d: to do a full chkdsk scan, discovered and restored roughly 4-5 files then it booted back to windows
3. Ran Malwarebytes, no malware discovered
4. Ran HDDScan as diagnosis test and from what I remember there is 200 Current Pending Sector Count and around 200 Uncorrectable Sector Count (if I didn't recall wrongly)
5. I've tried copying large chunks of data (2x 200gb plus files and folders) from the WD to the Samsung and the transfer speeds seemed fine (lowest was 25mb/s while the highest went up to 70mb/s). However, there were a handful of files which showed the error message "unable to read from source file or disk" and could not be copied over (roughly 5-6 small files)
6. The hard drive was still slow thus I did a couple more chkdsk scans ( /f only ), but doesn't fix the slow speeds and no bad sectors are reported
I'm thinking of trying the following:
1. Run HDTune to find out if there are bad sectors
2. Use a software like HDD Regenerator or Spinrite to 'repair' the drive?
3. Copy all data and format the WD drive wiping out all data completely (this would be my least preferred solution though and I'm not sure if I should still use it afterwards)
Any ideas for what I can do next? Any help is greatly appreciated!
(Thanks for reading this through it is a large chunk of information)
Would like to seek advice on the state of a Western Digital (Black?) 2 TB HDD (roughly 2 years old) which seems to be failing.
My storage system is set up such that an SSD is the primary drive while I have the WD hard drive and another 1 TB Samsung drive (5 years old) as secondary drives. I've installed Windows 7 on the SSD while games and other programs (Chrome, Desktop data etc) are installed or allocated on the Western Digital.
The symptoms on the drive started 2 days ago and are as follows:
- The first thing that was wrong was my desktop icons took ages to load (previously was instant, now takes up to 1 min plus)
- Maybe 5x significantly slower opening of some folders (the files within takes time to display properly), compared to opening files and folders on the Samsung (more or less instant, the WD loaded instantly in the past as well)
- Tried loading some games, takes significantly more time to load but do load in the end (e.g. Far Cry 4 from main menu in to the game)
- Steam games unable to update, receives Disk Write Error
- Chkdsk automatically started on Bootup for the WD drive and kept running everytime my computer reboots
I've tried the following fixes:
1. In cmd.exe, fsutil dirty query d: and found that my D drive was "Dirty"
2. Ran chkdsk /f /r d: to do a full chkdsk scan, discovered and restored roughly 4-5 files then it booted back to windows
3. Ran Malwarebytes, no malware discovered
4. Ran HDDScan as diagnosis test and from what I remember there is 200 Current Pending Sector Count and around 200 Uncorrectable Sector Count (if I didn't recall wrongly)
5. I've tried copying large chunks of data (2x 200gb plus files and folders) from the WD to the Samsung and the transfer speeds seemed fine (lowest was 25mb/s while the highest went up to 70mb/s). However, there were a handful of files which showed the error message "unable to read from source file or disk" and could not be copied over (roughly 5-6 small files)
6. The hard drive was still slow thus I did a couple more chkdsk scans ( /f only ), but doesn't fix the slow speeds and no bad sectors are reported
I'm thinking of trying the following:
1. Run HDTune to find out if there are bad sectors
2. Use a software like HDD Regenerator or Spinrite to 'repair' the drive?
3. Copy all data and format the WD drive wiping out all data completely (this would be my least preferred solution though and I'm not sure if I should still use it afterwards)
Any ideas for what I can do next? Any help is greatly appreciated!
(Thanks for reading this through it is a large chunk of information)
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