- Apr 25, 2013
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I have been having problems with my PC for about a month. It has been running very slow at times. It sometimes gets choppy or stuck. I had previously posted a question under the ‘Windows 7’ forum about this, but I think I’ve narrowed things down. The problem seems to be with one of my 3 hard drives, an internal non-boot one.
For a while, I tried to run CHKDSK / F on it. It would always lock and fail during the process. I tried it in Safe Mode though and it went to completion. A recently created bad file was repaired. I then ran DEFRAG and there was 70 GB in fragmented files fixed. Things ran very smoothly for a couple of days, but then things went back to the problems again.
After I shut the PC down, I can access the drive for a while. Then the problems start again. If I click on a video or audio file, it may crash. It seems to need a time out. If I disable the drive in the Device Manager, the PC runs fine. I did run a test on it and it passed.
Is there something that I’m overlooking? I need to get this drive back in shape.
Regards,
John
OS: Windows 7
Hard Drive: Seagate 5900 RPM / Serial ATA / 2 TB / Model # ST320005N4A1AS-RK Barracuda
For a while, I tried to run CHKDSK / F on it. It would always lock and fail during the process. I tried it in Safe Mode though and it went to completion. A recently created bad file was repaired. I then ran DEFRAG and there was 70 GB in fragmented files fixed. Things ran very smoothly for a couple of days, but then things went back to the problems again.
After I shut the PC down, I can access the drive for a while. Then the problems start again. If I click on a video or audio file, it may crash. It seems to need a time out. If I disable the drive in the Device Manager, the PC runs fine. I did run a test on it and it passed.
Is there something that I’m overlooking? I need to get this drive back in shape.
Regards,
John
OS: Windows 7
Hard Drive: Seagate 5900 RPM / Serial ATA / 2 TB / Model # ST320005N4A1AS-RK Barracuda
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