Cannot defrag my secondary Hard Drive Fully.

mikemefistous

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For some weird reason, i've noticed that my secondary hard drive, is causing my whole System to slow down and introducing noticable chopiness and input lag in games (while my frame rate still remains high)

And recently, i realized that i can't completely defrag it.

There are a lot of bad areas that can't be defraged with the defraggler program.

I don't want to use the windows defrag feuture, as i have a samsung SSD 850 Evo 250gb as my main to boot windows with and play some games like R6S/BF1/GTA V.

I've also got a 3rd drive for movies and photos and i am able to defrag 100% and fix all bad sectors.

I've noticed about 6 months ago, i was starting to have poor performance in games, while my fps indications were all proper, something was causing me to have input lag and choppy gameplay, so i upgraded my Mobo to a Gigabyte Z170x Gaming 3 and a CPU i5 6600K and 16gb of DDR4 2666MHz RAM and my issue was still not fixxed.

The choppiness and input lag randomly came into play, incoistently. Some days the pc would be fine, some others it would be too bad to enjoy any fps game.

I started defragging my secondary hard drives and i noticed that this problem was going away, but now it's at a point where it won't go away and i can't fully defrag my 2ndary hard drive and i believe it's causing all those performance issues/annoyances.
 
Solution
You can't defrag this drive because it is full with bad sectors and in fact defraggle shows you that. Stop trying to defrag it and start backing up every important file you may have on that drive. Otherwise you risk losing all your files. After that you can download a utility from your drive's manufacturer site and check your drive with it. You may also try to repair those bad sectors with this program but don't have high hopes. You could also download Crystal Disk Info and Hard Disk Sentinel and see what they report back about your drive's current health status. The real fact though is that this drive is bad and could die at any moment so you should consider replacing it if you want to avoid any future surprises.
You can't defrag this drive because it is full with bad sectors and in fact defraggle shows you that. Stop trying to defrag it and start backing up every important file you may have on that drive. Otherwise you risk losing all your files. After that you can download a utility from your drive's manufacturer site and check your drive with it. You may also try to repair those bad sectors with this program but don't have high hopes. You could also download Crystal Disk Info and Hard Disk Sentinel and see what they report back about your drive's current health status. The real fact though is that this drive is bad and could die at any moment so you should consider replacing it if you want to avoid any future surprises.
 
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mikemefistous

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Sadly it costs 100 Euro in my country.

Average monthly wage is 400 euro. So it's a lot of money to just swap out a drive.
 

rgd1101

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It not just swapping out, the drive it failing. you need to backup the data. or unplug it from the computer