My windows has been unreliable lately, it's been crashing and it hangs every 3 seconds, for about half a second. I troubleshooted for a few hours and found out my HDD is at fault, by using hd tune, I found that whenever I read/wrote from it, it would make windows hang for a few seconds and that the read/write speed dropped from about 100mb/s to only 0.0-0.1 mb/s. I couldn't get to disk management with it as it would crash windows explorer. I tried to fix this by going into safe mode, opening disk management and unmounting the HDD by removing it's drive letter.
Later, I rebooted and tried to start windows, the drive and the letter was still there so I tried to get into safe mode, but then it would freeze loading the files that was necessary for safe mode.
For now I have taken the SATA cable out of my mobo and everything is smooth, so it's definitely my HDD or something inside of it.
I have also checked if I have any viruses using windows defender and AVG, it found a few, which i'm assuming were false positives and they were deleted/quarantined but windows was still slow.
I'm open to all suggestions, my guess is it has bad sectors or something along the lines of that.
My specs are -
Intel-i7 2600
16gb of ram
Windows 7 64-bit
H67A gigabyte mobo
gtx 660
Intel 510 + 520 ssds
Seagate barracuda 1tb (this is the HDD causing trouble)
I'd like to resolve this without buying a new hdd if possible.
Later, I rebooted and tried to start windows, the drive and the letter was still there so I tried to get into safe mode, but then it would freeze loading the files that was necessary for safe mode.
For now I have taken the SATA cable out of my mobo and everything is smooth, so it's definitely my HDD or something inside of it.
I have also checked if I have any viruses using windows defender and AVG, it found a few, which i'm assuming were false positives and they were deleted/quarantined but windows was still slow.
I'm open to all suggestions, my guess is it has bad sectors or something along the lines of that.
My specs are -
Intel-i7 2600
16gb of ram
Windows 7 64-bit
H67A gigabyte mobo
gtx 660
Intel 510 + 520 ssds
Seagate barracuda 1tb (this is the HDD causing trouble)
I'd like to resolve this without buying a new hdd if possible.
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