Hard Disk Lag

theref

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Jun 22, 2012
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My PC
Hello I have two hard disks on my pc
Harddisk 1. Western Digital (1.5TB) [where my OS is] (Partition C:)
Harddisk 2. Seagate (3TB) [my stuffs] (Partition D: E:)

The Problems
Starting from two weeks ago, this problem happened. Whenever I played game, or using a programs, that programs will randomly freezes for several second, in its Window title it will appears "Program Name (Not Responding)". However after several seconds the program will just run fine. This always random lag happen if the program is located at my Seagate hard disk, the others are fine.

Everytime I boot my pc (from shut down), if I press F11, change boot order, I cannot see my second hard disk listed there. Only Western Digital and DVDROM. If I leave this screen for a minute, back, and reset the PC, the second hard disk will appears. So I need to heat up my pc a while before I can use the second hard disk, if I dont do this my PC will boot as usual, but my windows wont see my seagate hard disk.

What I've Done
I have checked all partitions from all hard disk using windows' error checking tools, no single error found, I also have defragment all of them. The problem still exist. I also used this third party program called Hard Disk Sentinel and do tests on both hard disk

Hard Disk 1. Western Digital :
The drive found 1 bad sector during its self test.
There is 1 weak sector found on the disk surface. It may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
At this point, warranty replacement of the disk is not yet possible, only if the health drops further.
It is recommended to examine the log of the disk regularly. All new problems found will be logged there. No actions needed.

Hard Disk 2. Seagate :
100% performance, 100% health, result says everything is perfect. Also, for some reason the program does not detect HD2's temperature, it has ? mark.

So I'm confused here, in the end, is this problem caused by my Hard Disks? If so which hard disk caused this? No matter I've tried, my HD2 Seagate shows no error. Only the HD1 WD, 1 bad sector. I'm currently running with my HD1 WD, I unplugged my HD2. No lag so far.
 
Solution
Hi theref. You did well trying all of this. My advice is that you connect the secondary drive again (maybe to a different SATA cable) and run chkdsk:
1. Login as administrator
2. Run CMD
3. Write the following without the quotations e.g. "chkdsk /F /R /X E:" (The E: is the drive letter you wish to check. The other stand for the following F/ fixes errors on the disk, R/ locates bad sectors and recovers readable information and /X forces the volume to dismount first if necessary)

It may fix any errors the drive has. And try it again with the game that was freezing before to see if everything's OK.
And about the WD drive I'd recommend that you keep checking it regularly, because when bad sectors start to occur, chances are that this will...
Hi theref. You did well trying all of this. My advice is that you connect the secondary drive again (maybe to a different SATA cable) and run chkdsk:
1. Login as administrator
2. Run CMD
3. Write the following without the quotations e.g. "chkdsk /F /R /X E:" (The E: is the drive letter you wish to check. The other stand for the following F/ fixes errors on the disk, R/ locates bad sectors and recovers readable information and /X forces the volume to dismount first if necessary)

It may fix any errors the drive has. And try it again with the game that was freezing before to see if everything's OK.
And about the WD drive I'd recommend that you keep checking it regularly, because when bad sectors start to occur, chances are that this will continue. Back up your data regularly and go with RMA when it's time.

Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any questions.
Boogieman_WD
 
Solution
Apr 16, 2018
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I did as you said but it freezes at 45% stage 4. Any solution?