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Overparduffer

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I built my own machine about 10 months ago. I have a small SSD which runs Windows and a few other things and then a traditional HD (Western Digital 1TB). Today after I woke my computer up, it had a message that AVG had downloaded an update and the computer needed to reboot. After clicking ok, the computer started making a wierd noise and it had a lot of trouble shutting down. I've managed to pull the computer back up but I can't seem to access the traditional HD. The HD light is on almost constantly and when I pull up task manager it shows my traditional HD running at 100%. Any suggestions on what to do?
 
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I ran Western Digital's utility for about 9 hours last night. According to the progress bar, it was only about 25% done and I got frustrated and hit cancel. At that point, it popped up with a message that said bad sectors had been found and did I want to fix them. I clicked yes and now things appear to be working again. I didn't have any time to see if there were any other lingering problems but fingers crossed I'm back in business again.
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Hi,

Did you give sometime for the HDD to be accessible since I doubt that possibly your AVG is doing a realtime scan on that drive. You can try to disable your AV protection and see if you will be able to access that drive with no problem.
 
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Overparduffer

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It took a while but I was finally able to uninstall AVG. Still no dice on the HDD. The computer seems to still recognize it but I guess it's so busy doing whatever it's doing that I can't get it to do anything else. Trying to run chkdsk but it is taking forever. I guess I will try to download Western Digital's diagnostic tool and see if I can run it.
 
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Overparduffer

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I ran Western Digital's utility for about 9 hours last night. According to the progress bar, it was only about 25% done and I got frustrated and hit cancel. At that point, it popped up with a message that said bad sectors had been found and did I want to fix them. I clicked yes and now things appear to be working again. I didn't have any time to see if there were any other lingering problems but fingers crossed I'm back in business again.
 
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