HDD Potentially Failing

BanesNLNM

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So I've been having issues regarding my hard drive, a couple of the things being:

  • Crashing while gaming (HDD seems to turn completely unresponsive)
    Very slow general task speeds, right clicking on the desktop for example after starting the PC now and then - restart usually resolves this issue for the time that the computer remains on.
For the crashing while gaming, the computer almost completely locks up to user-input, while programs like Teamspeak still remain updated on the screen, and I can both speak and hear assuming the Push-to-Talk was held down prior to the lock-up, but I can not click anything without it 'graying' out, including Windows desktop.

The PC has run stable for quite a long time with very few issues until lately, and it is more often fine than not.

Chkdsk results 0 KB in bad sectors. WD Lifeguard Diagnostics checks out as Safe on both tests.

All virus/adware/malware scans have checked out, namely Malwarebytes (Full scan) and just Windows Defender.

So my question to you is, does anyone happen to know what may be going on here?

It seems like it would be the HDD, but I honestly have no idea. Below are the loads and temps of CPU and GPU during a typical gaming session which has never been an issue before.

And I suppose an additional question if it is the Hard-Drive, would anyone happen to have a link to an in-depth HDD Cloning source? I have a 320gb HDD I could switch to, but it has data on it which I am currently unable to extract or even remove. I can not boot from it, nor even have it connected while booting (more than likely user error forgetting to switch something important ). There are many posts regarding merging larger HDD's into smaller ones with partitions, so I should be ok there but links are still always appreciated.

Thank you for your time and please let me know if there is any further information I can provide.


Running Chkdsk returns: (in Read-only mode)
Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required.

976401407 KB total disk space
232999376 KB in 366485 files
207032 KB in 51030 indexes
0 KB in bad sectors
764667 KB in use by the system
65536 KB occupied by the log file
742430332 KB available on disk

CPU / GPU Temps & Loads: (Monitored with EVGA Precision X, GPU Temp, Core Temp, etc)
CPU:
Core 1: ~60%
Core 2: ~54%
Core 3: ~56%
Core 4: ~51%

Idle: 10°c-13°c
While gaming: 20°c-27°c

GPU:
Idle: ~32°c
While gaming: ~57°c

Specs: (No overclocks)
1TB Serial ATA Hitachi HDD
AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core (3.6ghz)
760GM-GS3 ASRock AMD 760G Motherboard
8GB Ram
EVGA GTX 660 SC (320.29 Drivers)
Windows 8 Home Premium x64
600 Watt PSU
 

BanesNLNM

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The program states that the HDD has bad sectors, chkdsk /f ran from an elevated cmd did not solve the issue according to HD Tune Pro

HDTP_zps5a9d07b9.png
 

BanesNLNM

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Ran 'chkdsk C: /f /r' again and after a few hours of waiting the issue is still persistant according to HD Tune Pro.

Health status is identical to the previous screenshot. While running the file benchmark on read-write speeds I received an I/O Error 'Abort', error message from HD Tune Pro, maybe that's significant maybe not. Getting around 150-176 MB/s to 188.5 MB/s transfer rates on the standard Benchmark.

Error Scan:
http://i424.photobucket.com/albums/pp328/DTW_DAoC/HDTPErrorScan_zpsb3c8400a.png



Your drive is dying. Use clonezilla, macrium reflect, or some other free cloning software to try and backup what's left of the drive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A...

Yes I am sure that it is dying and has been for a while, but sadly Clonezilla is not a great option until I can remove the data off of the other smaller HDD or simply purchase a new one. Mostly just seeing if I can prolong it for now as it is my only option, I do have my important data backed up however.

Thank you for your response.
 

BanesNLNM

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Yes it is still functional, but the freezing would still be an issue - is there any way to relieve that for the time the hdd has left?