Hello people of TS
My hard drive (WD Green, 1 TB, bought it in early 2013, been using it since) has been doing weird stuff recently, causing my Windows to freeze a lot. I added a screenshot of task manager, very weird. SMART says all's fine though. Anyone know what is the issue? Might it be dying? There are no important files on there but it would still be neat to know it before it actually dies, right?
Edit: Added second image.
Thank you for any responses
Moss
Hi @Moss Its 21:38 here in England and I am feeling tired, so please excuse my question.
Have you run an Anti-Virus scan to see IF there is anything that could be causing the WD Green to act up???
http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1244900
Saw this, maybe this couls explain the weird behavior.
Could run chkdsk
Yea, I ran MalwareBytes just recently and it did not find anything. Plus I haven't done much on Windows since so I doubt anything changed. The issue has existed for a while. Running chkdsk.
This is the chkdsk output. Not sure what to make of it though.
"Windows has scanned the file system and found no problems.
No further action is required." Sounds pretty good.
Download Crystal Disk Mark and run the benchmark if the speeds are slower than a standard mechanical SATA 3 Green drive which is around 100mb Read and Write. It is usually the drives crapping out due to the crappy parts that are in them that are not suited for the other WD drives. They are notorious for crapping out.
Well, there's chkdsk and defragmentation. If there's physically something wrong with the disk, just toss it and get a new one.
If you think it's software related, you can try re-imaging your machine.
Last Step... just reformat and re-make your partitions.
If problem is still there, just get a new drive, and you didn't really lose anything anyway. Make sure to backup what you need NOW. to another disk.
Should I replace mine? WD Caviar Blue 500Gb already died on me with all data on it,it couldnt be saved.
Mobo is Asus M2N68 AM SE2 and its SATA 2 port.
Edit: This was using random data.
The random read/writes are way low. Maybe the read/write head is moving really slowly? I am just going to leave this here and go sleep for now, coming back to it and doing some research tomorrow after uni. Thank you for your help.
Edit 2: Seems like slow randoms are normal for hard drives so no need to worry. I'll just leave a screenshot of disk management here.
Yes I know that the OS partition should be as close to the front of the drive as possible. I had a different OS on the first partition when I installed Windows, it's gone now.
nice, it wasn't earth shattering it seems. :)
I experienced something quite similar with a WD Green 2tb drive. Basically, despite not reporting any errors, a small amount of files became "corrupted". They weren't really corrupted, because I could still access them, but whenever I tried accessing one of these "corrupted" files it would halt all disk activity for a random amount of time (sometimes hours).
I worked around this for some time by copying affected files and using the copy instead of the original file, but over time more files were "corrupted" so that I eventually replaced the drive.
Seems like it might be a software error as Windows is reporting it to be at 100% usage when the drive is only reading/writing a very small amount of MBs. Have you already tried defragging and stuff like that?
I hadn't done it before, did it now. It took a while and now it's defragmented. Let's see if this helps. If it does you are my hero. =]
Edit: Fixed a sentence to be more clear.
I honestly don't think it will work but it is worth a try. I highly doubt it's a hardware issue so you should be good for the most part.
If you've never defragged your drive before then it will definitely be slower than normal, though.
Looks like you fixed it. GREAT!
My SSD was acting strange, it slowed way down. I ran every test and got help from forums, but it tested fine.
I decided to replace it anyway with a bigger one. I got a empty USB drive enclosure to use it a portable.
It died a week later, so I got lucky.
I have a 3TB WD red backup E: that runs every other day, C: one day and D: the next.
And I have a Hot-Swap in my optical bay that I use old drives in, then put those backups in the closet.
I have been burned, so I am pretty compulsive about multiple backups now.
