- Dec 20, 2013
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I think my hard drive might be dying but I'm not entirely sure.
I have a Seagate 1TB 7200rpm HDD and I've had it for a few years. A few weeks ago something weird started happening. A torrent program I used would stop a download, saying there was some kind of disk error. Shortly after that, when I was downloading a game on Steam, I got a disk read error.
After that I kind of fell down a rabbit hole with this crap, looking at every single thing I could about what could be happening with my hard drive. I'm kind of a computer hypochondriac. Anyway, I downloaded three or four different HDD testing things like HD Tune Pro, CrystalDiskInfo, SeaTools, and maybe one other (I can't really remember). With Crystal and HD Tune, I would get cautions with a couple of things (reallocated sectors and one other I can't remember). With SeaTools it Passes a SMART test, but it intermittently Passes and Fails Short Generic Tests. I never got it to finish a Long Generic Test because it was weirding out my computer, and when I tried the Fix All options, both Failed.
If my computer was just acting weird, I could live with that. But it's also affecting my job. I do podcasts and video stuffs, and my computer acting has started affecting my ability to make them. I record gameplay with an AVerMedia Live Gamer HD and audio with Audacity. A couple of days ago I tried recording as per usual, but when I went to encode the video with Handbrake for editing, it made it about 12% in a stopped. No error message, it finished at 12%. I tried converting it with VLC, but it failed at the same point Handbrake stopped and popped up an error message saying saying something about bad sectors.
With podcasts I record using Audacity. When exporting them, Audacity will lock up my whole system for a few second five or six times. The audio exports fine in the end, but yeah.
I have no idea if this is a problem with programs or if my HDD is dying. If anyone can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
I have a Seagate 1TB 7200rpm HDD and I've had it for a few years. A few weeks ago something weird started happening. A torrent program I used would stop a download, saying there was some kind of disk error. Shortly after that, when I was downloading a game on Steam, I got a disk read error.
After that I kind of fell down a rabbit hole with this crap, looking at every single thing I could about what could be happening with my hard drive. I'm kind of a computer hypochondriac. Anyway, I downloaded three or four different HDD testing things like HD Tune Pro, CrystalDiskInfo, SeaTools, and maybe one other (I can't really remember). With Crystal and HD Tune, I would get cautions with a couple of things (reallocated sectors and one other I can't remember). With SeaTools it Passes a SMART test, but it intermittently Passes and Fails Short Generic Tests. I never got it to finish a Long Generic Test because it was weirding out my computer, and when I tried the Fix All options, both Failed.
If my computer was just acting weird, I could live with that. But it's also affecting my job. I do podcasts and video stuffs, and my computer acting has started affecting my ability to make them. I record gameplay with an AVerMedia Live Gamer HD and audio with Audacity. A couple of days ago I tried recording as per usual, but when I went to encode the video with Handbrake for editing, it made it about 12% in a stopped. No error message, it finished at 12%. I tried converting it with VLC, but it failed at the same point Handbrake stopped and popped up an error message saying saying something about bad sectors.
With podcasts I record using Audacity. When exporting them, Audacity will lock up my whole system for a few second five or six times. The audio exports fine in the end, but yeah.
I have no idea if this is a problem with programs or if my HDD is dying. If anyone can help me out, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.
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