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    PC horribly slow after running checkdisk

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by gobhi, Aug 18, 2011.

  1. gobhi

    gobhi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey All,

    I have a

    Dell Precision M90 Mobile workstation
    Intel Core 2 T7600 2.33ghz

    Windows 7 64bit
    4gb ram
    512 mb Nvidia Quadro FX3500M
    160 gb SATA hdd 7200rpm

    Recently my pc started giving a cyclic redundancy error. So I ran the windows 7 checkdisk. the checkdisk utility found a few bad sectors and fixed them. But since then the computer is horribly slow...and i mean really slow..

    I have tried a couple of steps but to no avail. I fear my hdd is going south.

    Any help/diagnosis/solutions on the matter will be much appreciated.
     
    gobhi, Aug 18, 2011
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  2. JOSEA

    JOSEA NONE

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    I would go the the HDD manufacturer's site and run any utility you can find there to check the integrity of the disk. Before doing that get any data you need off the drive. How old is the HDD?
    I agree with Chimpanzee, if you got 4 years out of the HDD you should replace.
    My Laptop is less than 2 yrs old, came with Momentus 7200.4 SATA 3Gb/s 500-GB Hard Drive and a few owners are already reporting that the HDD is failing
     
    JOSEA, Aug 18, 2011
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  3. gobhi

    gobhi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hey Josea,

    Yes i checked its a seagate Momentus 7200.2 rpm 3.0gb/s 160 gig harddrive.

    I got the laptop in 2007. So its pretty old.

    Though i have maintained it very well and this is the first time i have faced such a problem..
     
    gobhi, Aug 18, 2011
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  4. chimpanzee

    chimpanzee Notebook Virtuoso

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    forget about fixing it. Unlike the old days, once you see this kind of error, just change it. chkdsk is what, DOS era thing.
     
    chimpanzee, Aug 19, 2011
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  5. newsposter

    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    chkdsk works just fine on a modern machine.

    it's been updated along with everything else.

    it runs the same filesystem checks as the gui tool does.
     
    newsposter, Aug 19, 2011
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  6. chimpanzee

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    i know it works just fine but given today's hardware landscape, it is not needed(and that I mean the GUI as well).

    All modern HDD has their internal error handling mechanism so if there is anything that surface to the OS layer, the health of the drive is in big question mark and given the price of the HDD, changing it is the simplest way.
     
    chimpanzee, Aug 19, 2011
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  7. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    That asssumes, of course, that the error is caused by a physical/hardware issue. Chkdsk and other tools check for logical/software issues as well. And while I agree with your assessment that any hardware issue that surfaces to the OS means it's time for a hardware fix, I do think there is still a place for chkdsk (in either form) to scope out soft errors.

    Gary
     
    ScuderiaConchiglia, Aug 19, 2011
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  8. newsposter

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    not unlike the continued existence of fsck in unix/linux land.........
     
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  9. chimpanzee

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    @gary

    If you read the OP's description, it points to hardware issue that cause the 'soft' error. Sure there are other situations that the HDD is fine and it is the upper layer that is the problem(say after BSOD) but given that NTFS is a log based FS, it would recover automatically on reboot anyway.

    Anyway, my point was if chkdsk find bad sectors, it is the time to change hardware. I have seen this case twice for the last 10 years or so. In both time, the HDD die not long after.
     
    chimpanzee, Aug 19, 2011
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  10. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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    As chimpanzee mentioned, CHKDSK will detect bad sectors and blacklist them so that the filesystem no longer uses them. Bad sectors show up as the cyclic redundancy error, however it is difficult to say whether that is a serious issue since bad sectors are fairly normal for older drives. Even so I would recommend the following:
    - immediately back up your personal data
    - test the HD with manufacturer utilities
    - replace it if necessary
     
    Bog, Aug 19, 2011
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