Last couple of days I've had a strange issue with my computer, was being incredibly slow to load windows at first, At first I thought it was a virus so I tried to run some virus scans in safe mode once it had finally loaded.
the scan appeared to be stuck at 0%. same with malware bytes. malware bytes would not even open. when it opened finally after about 5-10minutes randomly I figured it was some kind of hard drive problem.
I ran a chkdsk on my SSD, it found no errors but it took ages so I was worried it was knackered because I have only installed it about 5 months ago.
then I tried the same on the old mechanical 1tb drive that I have for storage and some programs that I don't need on SSD - it would not even open the properties to run a chkdsk. drive manager also refused to load.
the weird thing is the PC was able to run games mine (seemingly)
after all this I tried to disconnect the old drive and the PC is working fine.
my question is(sorry its kinda a weird problem) is the issue that the drive is dead?? or is it that I have set something wrong in the settings when I installed my SSD drive. I've had windows installed on the SSD drive. I have some rather large files that I don't particularly want to re-download on the storage drive is why i'm asking before I fork out for a new storage drive to find out that I was doing it wrong somehow. its been working like this for 5 months like i said before with no issues what-so-ever. the old drive is roughly 8 years or so old.
if someone who's had some experience of something like this before can enlighten me it would be appreciated, thanks.
the scan appeared to be stuck at 0%. same with malware bytes. malware bytes would not even open. when it opened finally after about 5-10minutes randomly I figured it was some kind of hard drive problem.
I ran a chkdsk on my SSD, it found no errors but it took ages so I was worried it was knackered because I have only installed it about 5 months ago.
then I tried the same on the old mechanical 1tb drive that I have for storage and some programs that I don't need on SSD - it would not even open the properties to run a chkdsk. drive manager also refused to load.
the weird thing is the PC was able to run games mine (seemingly)
after all this I tried to disconnect the old drive and the PC is working fine.
my question is(sorry its kinda a weird problem) is the issue that the drive is dead?? or is it that I have set something wrong in the settings when I installed my SSD drive. I've had windows installed on the SSD drive. I have some rather large files that I don't particularly want to re-download on the storage drive is why i'm asking before I fork out for a new storage drive to find out that I was doing it wrong somehow. its been working like this for 5 months like i said before with no issues what-so-ever. the old drive is roughly 8 years or so old.
if someone who's had some experience of something like this before can enlighten me it would be appreciated, thanks.
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