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    HD problems

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by slowdive, Jul 22, 2007.

  1. slowdive

    slowdive Notebook Consultant

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    I started noticing some slowdown opening any application and decided to run hdtune and compare it with the test i made when i bought a few months ago.
    Is this normal after a few months?

    When i bought
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    8 months later
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    slowdive, Jul 22, 2007
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    It is a problem! My standard respone as always, "have you defraged"?
     
    baddogboxer, Jul 22, 2007
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    have you dropped your notebook, or has the drive been exposed to any Shock??
     
    Lil Mayz, Jul 22, 2007
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  4. slowdive

    slowdive Notebook Consultant

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    Yes i have defraged ;not only online standard defrag, but also mft and page file.
    Also no antivirus or other things running in background that might interfere with the benchmark.
    And i did HD error check, the long one, and no errors detected.
    Temperatures are always normal and i never get BSOD.
    Just some slowdown starting applications and very low clicks on the left side... And those absurd results....

    EDIT: never dropped and not exposed to any shock
     
    slowdive, Jul 22, 2007
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  5. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    It is a strange result. Those drops in the HD Tune result are normally caused by other applications / processes accessing the HDD.

    Try running Diskmon to see what is accessing your HDD. There's no need to run HD Tune at the same time.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jul 22, 2007
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  6. slowdive

    slowdive Notebook Consultant

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    Well, i did everything and nothing worked.
    So i decide to install a fresh copy of windows on a free partition i had, but i gave up while formatting; after 1 hour only had formatted about 30% (40 GB partition)!
    That never happened before.

    I decided to restore has it came from the factory; but only windows.
    So in a clean windows, without any software, i get the same benchmark that looks like the result of an earthquake.
    Since i have one more hardware problem, and 2 other problems due to the bad quality of my Asus i think it's time to send for repair this pile of...

    Thanks for the replies. :)
     
    slowdive, Jul 22, 2007
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  7. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    You can use Active SMART to check the HDD's health status.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jul 23, 2007
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  8. slowdive

    slowdive Notebook Consultant

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    Active Smart, like the others, says my HD is fine.
    So why does HDTune shows my HD has half the speed?
    And that's true.
    When i bought my laptop took me 65 minutes to do a long error check with HDTune. Now it takes 300 minutes.
    Format a 40 GB drive partition now takes 4 hours (instead of 30-45 minutes).
    A complete windows error check now takes all night...
    Thanks for the feedback.
     
    slowdive, Jul 23, 2007
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  9. John Ratsey

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    My only other thought is whether the IDE interface is running at the right speed. However, your HDD is peaking at 40MB/s which suggests that the interface setting is OK. Have you tried removing and replacing the HDD in case there is a poor contact on the connector?

    Have you also tried running the HDD manufacturer's own diagnostic program?

    Otherwise it may be best to get a replacement. If that runs OK then you know it is the HDD that is bad while if the new HDD shows the same problem then it means your computer has a problem.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jul 23, 2007
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