- Aug 30, 2013
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Several days ago, my two-year old brother used my computer. I don't know what he did, but ever since, my hard drive has been acting strangely. My Steam games (starting with Saints Row 4) will stop their downloads at a random time if the download is bigger than about 2 GB. Eventually, I wiped my Steam files completely and reinstalled Steam, but it didn't fix it, even when I installed in a different folder. I then ran a CHKDSK with only 3 stages, that didn't find anything. However, with a five-stage, two bad clusters were found in stage 4, one in my Steam files. But then, in Stage 5, it suddenly slowed down to only a couple hundred clusters per minute. When, in the morning, only 1% had passed, I force rebooted.
Next, I downloaded Seagate's Seatools, which promptly told me that it couldn't scan my drive because it was so ****ed up. So, I did another DSKCHK, which went slower than before.
Now, I'm running another, except this one is only stages 4 and 5, so I can use my computer. It also slowed down about 70% in. Currently it is going a bit faster, ranging between a couple and a couple dozen thousand clusters per minute. This, however, is still unacceptably slow, as millions of clusters are left.
NOW FOR MY QUESTIONS: Is this abnormally slow? Is my drive completely ruined? Is there anything else I can do to save my drive? (formatting is is OK, I don't have many important things on this computer, it would just be inconvenient)
Next, I downloaded Seagate's Seatools, which promptly told me that it couldn't scan my drive because it was so ****ed up. So, I did another DSKCHK, which went slower than before.
Now, I'm running another, except this one is only stages 4 and 5, so I can use my computer. It also slowed down about 70% in. Currently it is going a bit faster, ranging between a couple and a couple dozen thousand clusters per minute. This, however, is still unacceptably slow, as millions of clusters are left.
NOW FOR MY QUESTIONS: Is this abnormally slow? Is my drive completely ruined? Is there anything else I can do to save my drive? (formatting is is OK, I don't have many important things on this computer, it would just be inconvenient)
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