I got a 3 year old WD raptor (36gb version) that's been with me for several computer upgrades. I clean installed windows vista 64 on it after a recent major upgrade. However, I've been experiencing some kind of weird random lag/freeze whenever I do normal daily tasks, such as loading a website (it's not the internet connection, but IE actually freezes up), loading up windows experience index benchmark, trying to install drivers for my video card, and such. Keep in mind this isn't some few second lag, but more than a minute. I chkdsk'ed the HD (after pressing start it took like 5 minutes just to load up the pop window whether I want to restart my computer) and it seemed to be normal, without any bad sectors or corruption. I get the feeling that the lag is at the beginning of some task that I'm doing, and when it loads up it usually speeds up again. The overall performance of my HD is really fast, it has no problem loading up programs or such, but it's just that this weird lag or freeze is bothering me a lot.
Anyone knows what's the reason for this lag? I already ordered a replacement HD but would still like to keep this raptor so I don't have to reinstall windows again.
Anyone knows what's the reason for this lag? I already ordered a replacement HD but would still like to keep this raptor so I don't have to reinstall windows again.