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Hey, thanks. that is very helpful. I had downloaded the Seagate tools previously and tested the Hard drive, but I will do so with the hitachi tool as you direct.

Last night I found out that the fan that sits on the Hard Drive cage was non-functional. Don't know why I didn't check it beforehand. In any event, i feel fairly confident that this is one of the main problems and that the HD is massively overheating and causing most of the problem. Now i just hope i haven't done any major damage to the thing. But if I have, I now know how to copy the disk.
 
So it looks like the main problem was the drive overheating. I have run a battery of tests with a new fan hooked up and am not experiencing the significant slow down that I was seeing before.

Thanks everyone for the help and assistance.

One final question. Although the problem seems to be corrected, is there a chance that i seriously damaged my Hard drive throught it constantly overheating like that? chkdsk and Seagate tools and the Hitachi tools all say that it is OK, but I am wondering if it might suddenly just give up the ghost sometime in the near future. Is this a reasonable concern?

The reason I ask is that I might want to be looking for a new drive sooner rather than later. Suggestions?
 
Is your Seagate a 10k rpm model?
Did you check SMART to see if there are lots of sector reallocations? My old harddisk which slowed down alot was doing that.
 
bononos said:
Is your Seagate a 10k rpm model?
Did you check SMART to see if there are lots of sector reallocations? My old harddisk which slowed down alot was doing that.
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Seagate HD is 1TB 7200rpm.

Done several chkdsks and at least one defrag on it. Nothing indicated lots of sector reallocations. But will check again this weekend.
 
thespyder said:
So it looks like the main problem was the drive overheating. I have run a battery of tests with a new fan hooked up and am not experiencing the significant slow down that I was seeing before.

Thanks everyone for the help and assistance.

One final question. Although the problem seems to be corrected, is there a chance that i seriously damaged my Hard drive throught it constantly overheating like that? chkdsk and Seagate tools and the Hitachi tools all say that it is OK, but I am wondering if it might suddenly just give up the ghost sometime in the near future. Is this a reasonable concern?

The reason I ask is that I might want to be looking for a new drive sooner rather than later. Suggestions?
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Heat is the enemy of all electronics. Your hard drive may quit tomorrow, or it might last forever. Who knows? The best thing to do is to use this as a reason to develop and religiously follow a proper system backup regimen.

That way, if something does die, you won't be starting from scratch and can be up and running again as quickly as possible.
 
So just when I thought things were Ok, I ran another scan this moring. The Scan (PC Doctor) ran 5 hours and failed to complete. Computer slowed down to an absolute crawl and wouldn't respond short of a hard reboot.

Failing any other explanation, I am going to assume that the problem is the hard drive overheaded so many times that it is just failing completely now.
 
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