Intel RST causing all kinds of trouble with my hard drive

raykat

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I built a new system.It's a Gigabyte ud5 black edition.4790 proc.running windows 8.1.I have a Samsung 250 gb evo SSD and a seagate 1tb HDD.
My problem is this.first RST will for no reason kick my hard drive off the system and it no longer will show up in file manager.i have to unplug it and reinstall it and then restart my system and it shows back up.Also when I don't have my hard drive hooked up,everything is fine.Windows loads in about 10 seconds.As soon as i re hook up my hard drive every thing slows down.The gigabyte logo screen stays up really long and windows takes over a minute to load.when I access my hard drive and switch from one folder to another it really bogs down and some times freezes.I use a program called DAZ3D and wanted to put all my content on the hard drive but when i attempted to do so first...rst kicked my drive off halfway through...then my system bsod with a message that said some thing like...Driver-IRQL-not lesser or equal-lq-storage-ays...or something along those lines.
I've never used this so called rapid or not so rapid thing and probably wouldn't miss it.Can i just delete it from my system or will it screw up my ssd and hard drive?..or if any one has a clue as to why it doesn't like my hard drive or how i can correct this problem that would be most helpfull....thanks...raykat
 
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Hey there, raykat!

Uninstalling the Intel RST most probably didn't work because the problem is with your HDD.
Do you hear any unusual noise coming from it? Also where is your OS installed - the SSD or the HDD?
I'd change the SATA mode to ATA/IDE mode on problematic HDD and leave the SSD in SATA AHCI mode.
I'd also suggest you try to boot your PC without the HDD, with just the SSD plugged in and see if it will boot with proper speed then. Sometimes the HDD can affect the performance of the SSD and slow it down.

Another thing you can try to test the health status of your drive by running chkdsk with Command Prompt (CMD)
Run CMD as administrator > Type chkdsk x: /r (where x - is the drive letter assigned to your HDD)
It might take a...

raykat

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ok...deleted rst,but as soon as I plugged my hard drive back in my boot time for windows went right back to taking forever,and when i try to access a folder on the hard drive it slows to a crawl and says e drive not responding...after awhile it will switch to the folder i clicked but takes forever and sometimes does nothing.I ran seatools on it and it said it was ok but i'm thinking it may still be the drive.Thinking of buying a wd and seeing if I get the same problem...Any thoughts?
 
Hey there, raykat!

Uninstalling the Intel RST most probably didn't work because the problem is with your HDD.
Do you hear any unusual noise coming from it? Also where is your OS installed - the SSD or the HDD?
I'd change the SATA mode to ATA/IDE mode on problematic HDD and leave the SSD in SATA AHCI mode.
I'd also suggest you try to boot your PC without the HDD, with just the SSD plugged in and see if it will boot with proper speed then. Sometimes the HDD can affect the performance of the SSD and slow it down.

Another thing you can try to test the health status of your drive by running chkdsk with Command Prompt (CMD)
Run CMD as administrator > Type chkdsk x: /r (where x - is the drive letter assigned to your HDD)
It might take a while but this should find and fix bad sectors on your HDD.
If you are able to access it again, I suggest you back up all the important data.
If the bad sector count is too high or there is some kind of physical damage on the drive, it might fail on you soon.

Keep me posted if any of the solutions work for you!
Hope I helped! :)
SuperSoph_WD
 
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