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Local Disk E: Very Slow, Help Please

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hell911

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i have 2 hard disks
C: hard disk - (primary) OS and installers
E: hard disk - movies, and important files

Today i opened my computer, after like 2 hours of using i noticed that my E: drive is very slow, i opened pictures in that drive, it was very slow loading..

then i tried to copy files from E: to C:, there you go, there is the problem, my E: drive is slow.. here is the pic.

my hard disk is mounted sideways, do you think this is the problem?

pls help me fix this, this just happened today, i didnt install anything new in software or hardware.

i can't backup now, because the transfer rate is very slow, slower than the internet download speed. help me save my hard disk.

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Are they 2 independant disks? Or just one disk with 2 partitions...............I bet its the second. Which means it will be slower than 2 independant disks.
 
i have tried using HD Tune, as you can see in the screenshot below, my E: drive is invisible, i dont know what is the problem..

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Power down the computer and replace the data and power cables to the drive. For power, could be as simple as using another plug from your PSU.

If that doesn't help the problem, there may be an issue with the drive itself. Hard drive failures happen to everyone. Unfortunately, there isn't much you can do side from wait during the slow transfer (and hope the drive doesn't die) in order to save your data.

Lesson learned - make proper backups. If your files are important, store them in at least three independent locations (internal drive, external drive, cloud backup). Hard drives are cheap, and so are online backup solutions (Crashplan, Backblaze, etc).
 
so HD Tune just detected my hard disk,, but found some errors..

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should i replace my hard disk?

HD Tune has Error Scan option, i tried that, found some "red" damaged blocks
 
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my crystaldisk info report

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EDIT: i tried to copy from different destinations of the bad drive, some copied very fast (original speed), meaning there are some parts which are affected, and some not. trying to backup now...

will wait for your answers.
 
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My last HD actually died this way. Speeds went down to 50-500KB/sec and with a few corrupted files. And then 3 days later completely dead.
 
i just removed the wires from the defective drive.. computer is back to normal now (back then, even windows media player was very slow, now ok)

i guess i need to buy new hard disk, i had backup of important files, not just movies, i guess about 50 movies will be gone 🙁
 
It may not be too late to copy files from the stricken drive to the new one.
 
hell911 said:
i just removed the wires from the defective drive.. computer is back to normal now (back then, even windows media player was very slow, now ok)

i guess i need to buy new hard disk, i had backup of important files, not just movies, i guess about 50 movies will be gone 🙁
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Still is possible to salvage this stuff... as you can see, your HD is on its last legs.
If you want to recover anything, you could image the drive to another drive using something that will either skip or retry the bad sector 4-5 times before moving on... Using one of a linux liveCDs would be best for this job.

If the data is really important, then stop! Don't do anything else, and ship off the drive to a recovery service, and they should be able to get most of the data back as a cost of 4-5x (or more) the price of a new HD.
 
as i said, i had the back up of important files (in external hard disk), the lost files will be just maybe 50 movie files.. not really important.

right now i just bought 1TB of hard disk and removed the faulty hard disk, copying all the stuff back into 1TB.

btw~ this hard disk only lasted for 2 years 🙁
 
We talking built-in obsolescence? Or just wafer thin margins and lower overall quality? Either way, sure ain't like the old days.
 
sdougal said:
We talking built-in obsolescence? Or just wafer thin margins and lower overall quality? Either way, sure ain't like the old days.
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Wafer-thin margins, greater data density, and ECC not quite beefed up enough to cope as well as with old platters and heads (greater density leads to lower SnR, which leads to needing less change in the magnetic fields before bits get hard to correctly read).
 
Zxian said:
Power down the computer and replace the data and power cables to the drive. For power, could be as simple as using another plug from your PSU.

If that doesn't help the problem, there may be an issue with the drive itself. Hard drive failures happen to everyone. Unfortunately, there isn't much you can do side from wait during the slow transfer (and hope the drive doesn't die) in order to save your data.

Lesson learned - make proper backups. If your files are important, store them in at least three independent locations (internal drive, external drive, cloud backup). Hard drives are cheap, and so are online backup solutions (Crashplan, Backblaze, etc).
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I think this might work. My computer was too slow too and I did the same thing.
 
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