- Oct 4, 2014
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About 1½ months ago I built myself a high-end gaming desktop. Had no problems until 2 days ago, when my secondary harddrive, a Seagate Barracuda 1TB (model# ST100DM003-1ER162) became really slow.
ANY action performed on the disk will show 100% active time in Task Manager, and the read/write rates will be almost constantly locked at 0 KB/s. In short, any task performed on the disk takes a looooooooong time to complete, if the task doesn't crash along the way.
My main C: 250GB SSD disk however, runs just as smooth as ever. The problem seems to be isolated to only the secondary drive.
At one point I even noticed the Intel Rapid Storage Technology giving me an error saying it had removed the disk, afterwhich I could not find the disk in windows until I restarted the PC. (error link here: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/intel-rapid-storage-technology-enterprise-sata-available-disk-removed.175653/)
After lurking around on the internet I have tried the following:
Checked Task Manager & Resource Monitor, no suspect thread hogging resources found.
Scanned with Malwarebytes for any viruses, none found.
Disabled Superfetch, Prefetch & Windows Search, no effect.
Checked the drive for errors with Windows disk error checking, none found.
Reformatted the drive. Writing/Reading to the disk is still as slow as before.
Checked firmware version, I seem to have the latest (CC43)
Downloaded SeaTools and tried several things, first a SMART check, took a bit long but showed no problems. I also ran a short generic test, which took a really long time (1-2 hours) but showed no problems. I also tried the "Fix All" option, but no progress was ever displayed on the progress bar, so I assumed it froze.
I did a chkdsk /r which showed no problems, but when checking bad sectors froze at 8% completion.
Switched the SATA cable between mobo and the hdd, no effect.
Moved the SATA cable to a different port on the mobo. No effect.
Checked the power cable to the disk, its also connected to the SSD, which is working fine, so I assume the cable isn't broken.
Went to BIOS and switched sata connection from AHCI to RAID. No effect.
On the offchance it might afterall be a virus or software error, I tried doing a system restore back to last month, but after the pc restarted I get the error that the system restore failed, becuase the C: drive might be corrupt. It recommended me to do a chkdsk /r on C:, which I did. Still, trying to do a system restore always gave me the error to do a chkdsk /r.
All in all, I'm pretty sure there is somethinething wrong on the disk's end, but the system restore error's I'm getting I'm starting to suspect there might be a software error somewhere else on the PC.
Any suggestions on ways to solve this?
ANY action performed on the disk will show 100% active time in Task Manager, and the read/write rates will be almost constantly locked at 0 KB/s. In short, any task performed on the disk takes a looooooooong time to complete, if the task doesn't crash along the way.
My main C: 250GB SSD disk however, runs just as smooth as ever. The problem seems to be isolated to only the secondary drive.
At one point I even noticed the Intel Rapid Storage Technology giving me an error saying it had removed the disk, afterwhich I could not find the disk in windows until I restarted the PC. (error link here: http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/intel-rapid-storage-technology-enterprise-sata-available-disk-removed.175653/)
After lurking around on the internet I have tried the following:
Checked Task Manager & Resource Monitor, no suspect thread hogging resources found.
Scanned with Malwarebytes for any viruses, none found.
Disabled Superfetch, Prefetch & Windows Search, no effect.
Checked the drive for errors with Windows disk error checking, none found.
Reformatted the drive. Writing/Reading to the disk is still as slow as before.
Checked firmware version, I seem to have the latest (CC43)
Downloaded SeaTools and tried several things, first a SMART check, took a bit long but showed no problems. I also ran a short generic test, which took a really long time (1-2 hours) but showed no problems. I also tried the "Fix All" option, but no progress was ever displayed on the progress bar, so I assumed it froze.
I did a chkdsk /r which showed no problems, but when checking bad sectors froze at 8% completion.
Switched the SATA cable between mobo and the hdd, no effect.
Moved the SATA cable to a different port on the mobo. No effect.
Checked the power cable to the disk, its also connected to the SSD, which is working fine, so I assume the cable isn't broken.
Went to BIOS and switched sata connection from AHCI to RAID. No effect.
On the offchance it might afterall be a virus or software error, I tried doing a system restore back to last month, but after the pc restarted I get the error that the system restore failed, becuase the C: drive might be corrupt. It recommended me to do a chkdsk /r on C:, which I did. Still, trying to do a system restore always gave me the error to do a chkdsk /r.
All in all, I'm pretty sure there is somethinething wrong on the disk's end, but the system restore error's I'm getting I'm starting to suspect there might be a software error somewhere else on the PC.
Any suggestions on ways to solve this?
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