HDD at 100% with over 20,000 ms

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angelblake

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Hey folks! I got an issue since yesterday with one of my HDDs, a WD 500GB bought new 2 years ago. Since yesterday, I cannot access any program on it, always at 100% and peeks at 20,000 ms. I disabled all Windows 10 features that might interfere (win search, superfetch etc.), no success. I did a malware scan, nothing. I even formatted it (took me 12 hours), same issue even with 0 file on it. I can't even copy a 10mb file on it. Is it dead?

It's not my boot drive (A Samsung 960 Pro m.2 is).

My rig:
8700k
MSI z370 gaming plu
Gskill 16Gb
Galax GTX 1080
Samsung 960 Pro 250GB
2 WD 500GB
Bequiet 700w 80+ Silver
 
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Once drives start acting up, be glad you got warnings, and few hours of slow performance out of it at all....

Once errors start showing up in GsmrtControl, or similar utilities, etc...best to no longer rely on them at all....

(Easier to believe when can't write/read a single file to it...; full formatting only accelerates it's impending demise after a potential soft crash has occurred, but, at least that implies you have no data on it you need recovered...)

Certainly swapping ports/SATA cables with another internal drive will absolutely confirm whether the drive itself is bad, and rule out any SATA port/cable gone 'voodoo'...
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SkyNetRising

SkyNetRising

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It has sustained some damage - 39 relocated sectors. But should be good now.

Try copying more files and see, if Relocated Sector Count and Current Pending Sector data value increases.

BTW - are you sure it's screenshot from the right WD 500GB drive (since you have 2 of them)?
 
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mdd1963

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Once drives start acting up, be glad you got warnings, and few hours of slow performance out of it at all....

Once errors start showing up in GsmrtControl, or similar utilities, etc...best to no longer rely on them at all....

(Easier to believe when can't write/read a single file to it...; full formatting only accelerates it's impending demise after a potential soft crash has occurred, but, at least that implies you have no data on it you need recovered...)

Certainly swapping ports/SATA cables with another internal drive will absolutely confirm whether the drive itself is bad, and rule out any SATA port/cable gone 'voodoo'...
 
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angelblake

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I had all the important files and documents backed up on an external HDD, so not worried about that, just trying to figure out if I can save the HDD or if it's gone. I'll try to pick up a spare sata cable and try it.
 
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