- Jul 29, 2012
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So I recently built my wife a new computer and to save some money i took one of the three hard drives I had in my computer and put it into hers. Its about two years old. I was using it for backup storage and i noticed before that when i would click on its drive letter in windows it would take a good 5 to 10 seconds before it would open up, like it would freeze.
so it was in hers and was running fine at first and then her games started freezing. at first i thought it was maybe a graphics card driver issue or some compatibility issue with that specific game, but then it started happening to her regardless of what game she was playing. it would freeze for a good 30 seconds or so completely no alt-tab control alt delete, and then all of a sudden it would unfreeze and things would be fine. this started to happen more frequently, and i found out that if i restart it during the freeze when the computer reboots I get a disk read error and can't do anything. i solved this the first time by switching it to another power connector off the PSU just incase it was a lack of power issue. It fixed the disk read error for a while but now its back.
So I'm going to swap it with another one of my hard drives that has been working with no issues and just format it and transfer my storage things to it, but i am wondering if there is anything i can do to expand the life of this hard drive, should i defrag it or run some utility? i don't know much about dying hard drives i've certainly never had one die in two years on me, so does this sound like a dying hard drive to you guys?
i'm cheap and i'd like to extend its life for as long as possible. i only use it for storing movies and tv series i download i keep all my important documents and programs and games on my SSD so i'm not worried about losing anything irreplaceable.
UPDATE: I put the HDD back in my rig and am transferring files to it from the HDD I plan to put in her computer and I am having zero problems with it so far. its not freezing when I click on it like it did last time it was in my rig and file transfer is going smooth.. I highly doubt its a power issue because we are both running corsiar 750 watt PSUs.. So why the heck is working fine in mine and not hers?
so it was in hers and was running fine at first and then her games started freezing. at first i thought it was maybe a graphics card driver issue or some compatibility issue with that specific game, but then it started happening to her regardless of what game she was playing. it would freeze for a good 30 seconds or so completely no alt-tab control alt delete, and then all of a sudden it would unfreeze and things would be fine. this started to happen more frequently, and i found out that if i restart it during the freeze when the computer reboots I get a disk read error and can't do anything. i solved this the first time by switching it to another power connector off the PSU just incase it was a lack of power issue. It fixed the disk read error for a while but now its back.
So I'm going to swap it with another one of my hard drives that has been working with no issues and just format it and transfer my storage things to it, but i am wondering if there is anything i can do to expand the life of this hard drive, should i defrag it or run some utility? i don't know much about dying hard drives i've certainly never had one die in two years on me, so does this sound like a dying hard drive to you guys?
i'm cheap and i'd like to extend its life for as long as possible. i only use it for storing movies and tv series i download i keep all my important documents and programs and games on my SSD so i'm not worried about losing anything irreplaceable.
UPDATE: I put the HDD back in my rig and am transferring files to it from the HDD I plan to put in her computer and I am having zero problems with it so far. its not freezing when I click on it like it did last time it was in my rig and file transfer is going smooth.. I highly doubt its a power issue because we are both running corsiar 750 watt PSUs.. So why the heck is working fine in mine and not hers?
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