Problem:
I had been getting very slow response times on the most of trivial of tasks like refreshing the desktop or opening my computers and a huge delay in starting windows (WIndows 7 x64 ultimate sp1 ) . (Once while starting my pc, i got a "chkdsk", and it produced a no. of "retreiving orphaned files.....-i dont really know how much significance it was, but i havent seen such things in a chkdsk ever before)
So i tried formatting my hard disk and reinstalling OS, which got stuck for a long time at 46% , and then totally stopped at "Preparing Desktop". The 2nd time i tried installing,it completed, although the windows startup took an awful lot of time.
From then, startups have been real slow. Sometimes my pc did things at the speed it's meant to be. I have played gta v,battlefield 4 with a smooth framerate in the said timeframe,although i noted during the game autosaves, the game froze. Until last afternoon, when it became ABSOLUTELY UNWORKABLY SLOW.
My suspects included my RAM and Hard disk( i have 2 hard drives, 1st- 1TB WD blue where my OS is installed 2nd- 160 gb seagate data drive) To check whether there was any problem of power supply, i disconnected my 160gb drive and the dvd drive. I ran memtest86, 4 passes, zero errors, so ram was ruled out(i guess).
Then i downloaded HD tune and ran on my pc to find out the following results.
http://imgur.com/a/u1DNU
0.5% damaged blocks,but health screen indicated OK on all parameters.As the HD tune website tells me, red blocks mean i should backup and REPLACE my hard disk.
So, my question is IS MY HARD DISK REALLY THE CULPRIT IN MY PROBLEM? And SHOULD I REPLACE IT OR THERE IS SOME OTHER WAY? (I cant RMA it, my 2 year warranty expired Aug,15)
My specs: Intel dh61 ww classic mobo
I5 3330 3.0 Ghz processor
8gb ram (2*4gb ram 1333mhz)
Asus strix gtx 960 4gb
Corsair VS550w
PLEASE PLEASE REPLY ASAP as i really need to access my pc.
I had been getting very slow response times on the most of trivial of tasks like refreshing the desktop or opening my computers and a huge delay in starting windows (WIndows 7 x64 ultimate sp1 ) . (Once while starting my pc, i got a "chkdsk", and it produced a no. of "retreiving orphaned files.....-i dont really know how much significance it was, but i havent seen such things in a chkdsk ever before)
So i tried formatting my hard disk and reinstalling OS, which got stuck for a long time at 46% , and then totally stopped at "Preparing Desktop". The 2nd time i tried installing,it completed, although the windows startup took an awful lot of time.
From then, startups have been real slow. Sometimes my pc did things at the speed it's meant to be. I have played gta v,battlefield 4 with a smooth framerate in the said timeframe,although i noted during the game autosaves, the game froze. Until last afternoon, when it became ABSOLUTELY UNWORKABLY SLOW.
My suspects included my RAM and Hard disk( i have 2 hard drives, 1st- 1TB WD blue where my OS is installed 2nd- 160 gb seagate data drive) To check whether there was any problem of power supply, i disconnected my 160gb drive and the dvd drive. I ran memtest86, 4 passes, zero errors, so ram was ruled out(i guess).
Then i downloaded HD tune and ran on my pc to find out the following results.
http://imgur.com/a/u1DNU
0.5% damaged blocks,but health screen indicated OK on all parameters.As the HD tune website tells me, red blocks mean i should backup and REPLACE my hard disk.
So, my question is IS MY HARD DISK REALLY THE CULPRIT IN MY PROBLEM? And SHOULD I REPLACE IT OR THERE IS SOME OTHER WAY? (I cant RMA it, my 2 year warranty expired Aug,15)
My specs: Intel dh61 ww classic mobo
I5 3330 3.0 Ghz processor
8gb ram (2*4gb ram 1333mhz)
Asus strix gtx 960 4gb
Corsair VS550w
PLEASE PLEASE REPLY ASAP as i really need to access my pc.
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