1.The incident
2. Home fixing attempt
3. friend place and using the secondary hdd
4. the issue that persist.
1. Ok, so I had a sad incident... Tower fell on the side and had 2 hdd in it... Next thing I know.. The OS doesn't boot and I have very limited options in how I could try to fix it.
2.After several trial to fix using windows repair, sfc, chkdsk, etc... I ended with "A read disk error occurred
Press ctrl+alt+del". So, I figured I couldn't do much on my own as I did not even have a windows disk at my place...
3. At friend place, I used his secondary comp in hope to fix my things. Upon plugging my OS drive as a slave. IT highly slowed his comp and it didnt get past the windows logo. After maybe 10 min, I ended up with windows going in a chkdisk on its own. Obviously, it had a lot of error found and took over 1 hour maybe 2 just to get the chkdsk done! Once I reboot ? It still wanted to do a more chkdsk. At that point, I gave up on the OS HDD. Figuring I need a working computer fast. I decided to see if fixing the secondary hdd would give better results! So, I do a chkdsk and then try to install windows 7. Turns out that the secondary drive was uefi and the windows I was trying to install was legacy. So, I deleted partitions and changed them to Legacy. Installed his windows 7 and booted nicely after a little while.
4. While the OS is working I still have some issue with HDD speed. The strangest thing isnt how slow it is. Its how inconsistent it is.
a) I seen it run at start having issue around 1mb/sec and be perfectly fine at 10mb/sec+.
b) It is clicking from time to time. Sometime it will be fine for a long time if I do not do anything more then watch a movie/streaming. It can also be somewhat periodic. A few second, a few min or 10 min.
c) When it start clicking it will either do it for an amount of time or be stuck in clicking and OS seem to stall. I never left the computer open more then 2 min when it stall during clicking to prevent further damage.
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About the clicking and hopefully info that will give clues to someone that can help me!
The clicking seem to be more common when I open many things related to windows, browsing.
IE does not click much at all unless I have many pages open and even then.. Nothing compared to Chrome.
Chrome was often very long to start and would often make the hdd click as hell.
Firefox would start quite fast and does click much at all. Kinda like IE to my surprise
Once I installed flash player, Firefox became very unstable for the hdd for about 3 reboot.
Why do I say that clicking is related to windows and browsing ?
To do a test because I was impressed at how movies didn't seem to impact the hdd much, I opened in vlc 10 video files and let them play for 30 min with sound on. From time to time I would hear 1 or 2 video take a little pause to load properly and yet I never heard the hdd click once!
I closed all the vlc window and went on the internet. Figuring that maybe spinning actualy fixed the thing... few tabs open in firefox and I could hear the clicking sound start which ended causing a hdd stall or crash. I didnt wait more then a min to hold the power button and I dont want to damage the hdd more then it is. I will admit tho, that now I have less clicking issue with going around in windows. Maybe because it is in a page file ? I have no clue.
HDD being used
HGST HTS 541010A9E680 SCSI Disk
2. Home fixing attempt
3. friend place and using the secondary hdd
4. the issue that persist.
1. Ok, so I had a sad incident... Tower fell on the side and had 2 hdd in it... Next thing I know.. The OS doesn't boot and I have very limited options in how I could try to fix it.
2.After several trial to fix using windows repair, sfc, chkdsk, etc... I ended with "A read disk error occurred
Press ctrl+alt+del". So, I figured I couldn't do much on my own as I did not even have a windows disk at my place...
3. At friend place, I used his secondary comp in hope to fix my things. Upon plugging my OS drive as a slave. IT highly slowed his comp and it didnt get past the windows logo. After maybe 10 min, I ended up with windows going in a chkdisk on its own. Obviously, it had a lot of error found and took over 1 hour maybe 2 just to get the chkdsk done! Once I reboot ? It still wanted to do a more chkdsk. At that point, I gave up on the OS HDD. Figuring I need a working computer fast. I decided to see if fixing the secondary hdd would give better results! So, I do a chkdsk and then try to install windows 7. Turns out that the secondary drive was uefi and the windows I was trying to install was legacy. So, I deleted partitions and changed them to Legacy. Installed his windows 7 and booted nicely after a little while.
4. While the OS is working I still have some issue with HDD speed. The strangest thing isnt how slow it is. Its how inconsistent it is.
a) I seen it run at start having issue around 1mb/sec and be perfectly fine at 10mb/sec+.
b) It is clicking from time to time. Sometime it will be fine for a long time if I do not do anything more then watch a movie/streaming. It can also be somewhat periodic. A few second, a few min or 10 min.
c) When it start clicking it will either do it for an amount of time or be stuck in clicking and OS seem to stall. I never left the computer open more then 2 min when it stall during clicking to prevent further damage.
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About the clicking and hopefully info that will give clues to someone that can help me!
The clicking seem to be more common when I open many things related to windows, browsing.
IE does not click much at all unless I have many pages open and even then.. Nothing compared to Chrome.
Chrome was often very long to start and would often make the hdd click as hell.
Firefox would start quite fast and does click much at all. Kinda like IE to my surprise
Once I installed flash player, Firefox became very unstable for the hdd for about 3 reboot.
Why do I say that clicking is related to windows and browsing ?
To do a test because I was impressed at how movies didn't seem to impact the hdd much, I opened in vlc 10 video files and let them play for 30 min with sound on. From time to time I would hear 1 or 2 video take a little pause to load properly and yet I never heard the hdd click once!
I closed all the vlc window and went on the internet. Figuring that maybe spinning actualy fixed the thing... few tabs open in firefox and I could hear the clicking sound start which ended causing a hdd stall or crash. I didnt wait more then a min to hold the power button and I dont want to damage the hdd more then it is. I will admit tho, that now I have less clicking issue with going around in windows. Maybe because it is in a page file ? I have no clue.
HDD being used
HGST HTS 541010A9E680 SCSI Disk
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