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Hi,

A few weeks ago while I was playing CSGO my computer froze, after about 5 minutes of waiting I forced restarted the PC. After that windows wouldn't boot, instead it said reboot and select proper boot device. So I had to reinstall windows. After that everything was fine until some days after when my 4 year old HDD started going unresponsive when I tried to browse its files. Task manager said 100% usage on the HDD but resource monitor only showed active files in my SSD, where my windows 10 is installed, and nothing from the HDD. I only use the HDD for games and movies. When it went unresponsive I of course tried restarting my PC. That resulted in my HDD not being registered in the BIOS or in the OS. But if I let the PC be off for a while and then turn it on it, the HDD gets registered. For a short while after the PC is on the HDD is responsive. But when I try to access it, it often goes unresponsive.

What should I do? Is the HDD failing or is it some kind of an software error? The HDD is a Seagate Barracuda 1TB. All of my other components except for the GPU are as old as the HDD.

Thanks!

EDIT: I have run a malwarebytes virus scan, but it detected nothing

 
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When a HDD finds a bad sector it immediately begins trying to recover the data and move it. If its successful it marks the sector so it will be tested again in the drives spare time and the data is in another previously empty sector. If it fails the sector is marked bad and a spare is activated in its place.

Now that the bad sector has been dealt with checkdisk wont find it. Any bad sectors have been reallocated and checkdisk is actually checking the spare thats being used.

You need to examine the drives SMART output to get a good feel for how the drive is doing.
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I actually was going to post about my very similar issue. Have a WD Blue 1TB for my games and movies, a couple of days ago it started lagging severely. DSKCHK showed nothing. On task manager, it says 100% usage but no significant read or write. Ran Kaspersky without finding anything. Running the WD full diagnostic tool now. Half the time, task manager will show good read speed ~180MB/s and the utility will be running through sectors pretty fast. Every 10 seconds or so, it seems to get stuck on a sector, the hard drive will read 100% usage but no read or write speed for 5-10 seconds

I'm assuming this is due to bad sectors and a bad HD. My PSU recently failed catastrophically, so maybe that was the cause. With storage being pretty dang cheap now, I'll probably just buy a new HDD and hope that fixes everything. I haven't had any of your BIOS registering problems, but that would make me lean more towards a drive failure.
 
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When a HDD finds a bad sector it immediately begins trying to recover the data and move it. If its successful it marks the sector so it will be tested again in the drives spare time and the data is in another previously empty sector. If it fails the sector is marked bad and a spare is activated in its place.

Now that the bad sector has been dealt with checkdisk wont find it. Any bad sectors have been reallocated and checkdisk is actually checking the spare thats being used.

You need to examine the drives SMART output to get a good feel for how the drive is doing.
 
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Gibu

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I downloaded a program called HD Tune because Seatools didn't detect my disk. HD Tune told me that the HDD had some damaged sectors. So I ran a checkdisk but it took really long so I went to sleep with it on. When I woke up the scan seemed to have finished. But now when I try to access the HDD, it says "D: is not accessible. Access is denied." Is my HDD completely dead now?

The data on the HDD is not important to me. I'm just wondering if I can make the HDD work again, if not then I'll have to buy a new one.

EDIT: I went and bought a new HDD, thanks!
 
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