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    Was it time for a new hard drive?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Kuu, May 2, 2011.

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    Kuu That Quiet Person

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    Did a defrag on this drive yesterday morning followed by some heavy torrent use throughout the night, and I wake up to find that trying to move files around off this drive caused Windows to lock up after a few minutes (to the point where Ctrl + Alt + Del did nothing).

    I went and got a Hitachi Travelstar 7200rpm drive, bad idea? I know the drive had at least 1 bad sector when I got it, but it seems to have spread, so I rather go the safe than sorry route here.

    Now if only my backup wasn't corrupted =\
     
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    Kuu That Quiet Person

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    That's the old Seagate in the screenshot that went bad, I already replaced the drive with the Hitachi one I bought and I'm currently reinstalling all of my stuff and retrieving data off the old Seagate drive. I might try a full format and see what that does once I'm done with it.
     
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    New hard drive has no bad sectors, just a few hours of use after a Reinstall of Windows, about 200GB of file transfers, and a overnight defrag with no issues.

    The Hitachi drive doesn't make the entire left side of my computer vibrate either, which is nice.

    I did a chkdsk on the old Seagate drive, and It replaced about 300 clusters though.
     
    Kuu, May 3, 2011
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