Is my harddisk dying?

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

Hello,

I've had some problems with 1 of my hdd on my system recently. When i go to play gta v or doom or any other game which is hard disk intensive in task manager it shows in disk 50% usage when a task name System is taking like 0.1mb/s to 0.5mb/s and the game is taking 0mb/s cause the hdd is already at its full capacity according to task manager. I tried a couple of things i remove the hdd cleaned it changed its sata port change the sata cable nothing seems to work sometimes the hdd feeds data to game and the game works fine but between 15min to an hour or 2 the game freezes and crashes and the hdd light doesnt even turn on so is my hdd dying or its some software issue i ran disk checkup it says everything is fine and crystal disk is also saying that the hdd condition is good idk what to do anymore pls help.

djluther993 · Mar 1, 2018

Have you checked if there is something wrong with the CPU or the GPU?

SkyNetRising · Mar 1, 2018

Can you post screenshots from HDtune health and
Resource monitor Disk section?

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

djluther993 :

Well i play league of legends and fortnite which r on the other drive which is the os drive so i suppose the cpu and gpu r ok?

djluther993 · Mar 1, 2018

I am Tron :

What RPM do u have on ur drive?
Low RPM harddrives tend to be very slow and can cause wierd lag.
How old is the drive?
Is your computer overheating when playing?

bearhairy02 · Mar 1, 2018

It could be dying. But i doubt that because there are other signs that shows whether its dying or not and those are not the signs.try defragmenting.and if you think its dying try formating the hdd or install windows again.

bearhairy02 · Mar 1, 2018

Oh and if it's 6-10 years old then you can't really expect it to run new titles that need high rpm hdds

SkyNetRising · Mar 1, 2018

There are no such games, that would list high rpm HDD as a requirement.

And do not defragment drive, you suspect is failing. It will lead to data loss.

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

SkyNetRising :

Ok these r the screenshots u asked for and for others saying its old i got it off ebay new at december of 2017 and just to point out when tried using hdtune and i tried opening snipping tool my explorer crashed and when i stopped the hd tune testing it came back again and when i click start again it took the data which i am sending u right now.
https://ibb.co/cDNUXc
https://ibb.co/jj3mCc
https://ibb.co/iQvcJH

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

bearhairy02 :

Oh really? cause i have the hdd i got it 2006 its 12 years old and the hdd is still going strong i play league and fornite on it almost everyday and its a Maxtor 80gb ik its not much in todays standars but it still going strong buddy.

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

djluther993 :

I am Tron :

What RPM do u have on ur drive?
Low RPM harddrives tend to be very slow and can cause wierd lag.
How old is the drive?
Is your computer overheating when playing?

no not overheating the drive is 5900rpm its like 2 to 3 months old

photonboy · Mar 1, 2018

EBay... sigh. I've seen so many issues dealing with them including many fake drives or selling products with known issues.

I'd say it's almost certainly an issue with the HDD. It's not very expensive to replace it cheaply with a much higher capacity than 320GB.

You also have full capacity anyway? So get a bigger drive regardless.

There should be little to no WRITING so having the drive full should not cause any major issues, nor should it be that ridiculously slow for any reason aside from failure of the drive or the SATA connection (which you troubleshooted).

So IMO it's a bad drive.

This 2TB, 7200RPM, 3.5" Hitachi is only $60USD:
https://pcpartpicker.com/product/dxH48d/hitachi-ultrastar-7k3000-2tb-35-7200rpm-internal-hard-drive-hua723020ala641

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

photonboy :

yea i hear u i also think that the hard drive is at fault here but the problem is i dont live in US otherwise a 60$ hdd is not a big deal secondly this is just out of curiosity why does it work sometimes and sometimes it doesnt do anything like i tested it with hd pro first time it crashed the explorer and the second time it worked sort of why is that though? And as for getting a new hdd i looked at amazon of my country and the rating r not great to say the least so i dont know where to buy a trusty a new hard drive lol maybe i will go on a local shop idk

SkyNetRising · Mar 1, 2018

I am Tron :

In HDtune screenshot I wanted to see Health section (not benchmark).
Also in Resource Monitor screenshot - can you remake it with disk activity section ordered by column Total (descending)?
(the screenshot is rather blurry btw)
It looks like Hdtune benchmark is causing most of HDD utilization there.

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

SkyNetRising :

Ok this is the hd tune health section and its saying warning at bottom so i dont suppose thats good and as for the resource monitor descending i cant understand what you are trying to ask sry.
https://ibb.co/ews7JH

SkyNetRising · Mar 1, 2018

I am Tron :

The drive has overheated in the past. You have to improve cooling inside your pc enclosure.
There are 2 pending sectors. Drive can't read those 2 sectors. Not good, but not critical either.
And CRC errors - those could be related to overheating or bad sata cables.

I am Tron :

You press on column name "Total (B/sec)" and the list will be ordered by that column. Try to order it, so higher values are at top, lower values at bottom (Disk Activity section - 2nd one).

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

SkyNetRising :

Ok i hope this is correct
https://ibb.co/ds0GCc
And see this is when i'm playing gta it doesnt even let me go into menu it just stays at the info section for the whole time cause hdd is not giving data to game cause according to hdd the system is already taking the whole hdd
https://ibb.co/mDHA5x

SkyNetRising · Mar 1, 2018

Why are you running HDtune benchmark all the time?
That uses all available resources of your HDD and prevents seeing, if anything else is happening there.

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

SkyNetRising :

Oh ok sry this is without running the software
https://ibb.co/gsJQ5x

SkyNetRising · Mar 1, 2018

I can see pagefile being utilized there. This means, your system could benefit from more ram.
Other than that it looks fine.

So your OS is on C: , games on F: (same physical hard drive).
What's on D: ? Only pagefile?

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

SkyNetRising :

no on d on different things u know like games music etc but that still doesnt tell me why the hdd is not giving data to game i mean i literally sent u the pic of gta just getting stuck there and hdd at 50% and gta is not taking even 1%

SkyNetRising · Mar 1, 2018

Is GTA V installed on D: drive?
There were 2 pending sectors on the drive. If GTA files are using those unreadable sectors, then it's normal to expect some problem with the game.

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

SkyNetRising :

yes gta is at drive d so how do i fix those sectors?

SkyNetRising · Mar 1, 2018

Easy fix would be copying the game to some other location, so that it doesn't use damaged sectors on D: drive.

But to fix those sectors, you'd have to boot from MHDD CD or USB flash and scan your drive (with relocate option on).
http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/
(this could be rather tricky, if you haven't done anything like this before)

I am Tron · Mar 1, 2018

SkyNetRising :

well i am an Engineering student of computer science (ofc) i think i can give it a try if it can fix this

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