Eight Ways To Kill Your HDD, About what NOT to do to prolong HDD life
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 Jan 21 2007, 05:42 PM
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yesterday...my hdd suddenly came out a sound ''tek tek tek''....my system suddenly hang then suddenly smooth...then i faster restart my pc...but then when my pc want go into windows...it very slow and very slow at the startup...and then i click an application,it also take some time to load it...i already check the CPU usage and it just used about 20% of memory...what happen???
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Mar 23 2007, 01:02 AM
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QUOTE(eddyann @ Mar 22 2007, 11:57 PM) i wanna ask i got slight problem with my Seagate ST380011A Barracuda 7200RPM (80GB). The performance is getting slower in windows xp. the weird thing is, there's some kinda interval hard disk busy activity after 5-7 seconds and it wont take long. CPU is idle and no virus were detected. then i try to reformat and repartition my disk. reinstalling windows xp also there's that interval busy activity occured. also my installtion of winxp become somewhat longer than normal (winxp cd no scratch) all i saw my disk keep on busy than usual during winxp installation which made my fresh installation becomes abit longer for sure. i also having this problem too...i try to reformat but the problem same...is it mean my hd will kong soon???any solution???pls help us....(PS:soory for eddyann coz i use ur post)now in fresh windows xp, sometime still heard that interval busy activity..let me ilustrated with my best imagination .............................(no HDD activity for 5-7secs)..............................KRIKKKKKKKKKKK (for 1-2 seconds, some kinda reading huge data).................................................KRRRIIIIKKKKKKKKKKK (again) I check thru SMART info ID Attribute Description Threshold Value Worst Data Status 01 Raw Read Error Rate 6 57 52 8963550 OK: Value is normal ID Attribute Description Threshold Value Worst Data Status 07 Seek Error Rate 30 89 60 905342955 OK: Value is normal ID Attribute Description Threshold Value Worst Data Status C3 Hardware ECC Recovered 0 57 52 8963550 OK: Always passes The value is normal when google it, benchmark it seems to be normal at speed and also check thru Seagate Seatools my HDD PASSED  |
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Mar 23 2007, 09:41 AM
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QUOTE(eddyann @ Mar 23 2007, 07:09 AM) do you use the same hard disk as mine? any soultion or what is the problem guys? mine is WD 80gb....ram also 1gb...the problem is same as u....already formatted twice but still the same...somemore my pc always restart when my hd loaded 'too much'.... i dont think because of lack or ram. mine 1GB already with p4HT 3.4G running with a fresh installation WINXP now. it should be fast and speedy with this fresh copy, but i keep getting busy hard disk more than usual. is something like u disable the swap file or disable the L2 cache of your processor to illustrate the slow |
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