- Apr 2, 2015
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I have a Internal WD 2TB Green as i used as a slave, I believe by now it must be over 5 or 6 years old by now.
Recently Windows 10 keeps scanning it and "repairing" it with each boot, and even after that, it nags on me on the taskbar from time to time, asking me I should to restart my PC so it can "fix" them.
There is no strange sounds as I would expect from a dying drive, but today. it slowed down to a unusable crawl, so slow I could barely savage anything of it.
I managed to get some decent speed of it in safe mode and savaged all my important data of it, some big files were unreadable and I can't even delete them either.
I had some hidden partitions on it, which I managed to free up to give it more leg room, now it's a full continous D: drive., so now drive has plenty of space, but Windows will always insist it has errors.
And also there seems to be some corrupt big files that are left unreadable and it won't let me delete them either.
Anyway I buying a new one to replace it with, but I would like to be sure, at least now its not so slow and its "readable", but not plan writing anything on it again, and wondering can drives die silently and in this sort of way?
Recently Windows 10 keeps scanning it and "repairing" it with each boot, and even after that, it nags on me on the taskbar from time to time, asking me I should to restart my PC so it can "fix" them.
There is no strange sounds as I would expect from a dying drive, but today. it slowed down to a unusable crawl, so slow I could barely savage anything of it.
I managed to get some decent speed of it in safe mode and savaged all my important data of it, some big files were unreadable and I can't even delete them either.
I had some hidden partitions on it, which I managed to free up to give it more leg room, now it's a full continous D: drive., so now drive has plenty of space, but Windows will always insist it has errors.
And also there seems to be some corrupt big files that are left unreadable and it won't let me delete them either.
Anyway I buying a new one to replace it with, but I would like to be sure, at least now its not so slow and its "readable", but not plan writing anything on it again, and wondering can drives die silently and in this sort of way?
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