- Sep 10, 2009
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I'm trying to figure out what's going wrong with my hard drive(s). Hopefully, someone here can help. Here's the situation:
I run 2 hard drives: OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD for OS mostly and a WD Caviar Green 1TB for media and game storage.
About 3 days ago I was shutting down the computer to go to sleep and it got stuck on shutting down screen (Windows 7). After waiting 2-3 minutes (it wasn't even installing updates) I just held down the power button and went to bed. Next morning, trying to boot up, I got a disk read error, so I spent my Saturday morning re-installing Win 7 and all of the drivers, MS office, etc. When it was all done, hard drives seemed to work fine, so I just blamed it on my stupidity and went on with my life.
Last night, I again shut down the computer and it went to the shut down screen as normal, except it popped up with some error, which I didn't get to read as it shut down almost instantly after that. Booting up next time, I got disk read error again, so I made sure BIOS had my SSD selected as only bootable drive and this time it gave me BOOTMGR is missing. So, I used the Win 7 disk to repair installation. However, after it fixed Windows, the screen that says "Starting Windows" takes a good 10 minutes to get through.
When in windows, my SSD seems to function normally, but my WD is now RIDICULOUSLY slow. It takes up to a minute to open a folder and accessing a video file is impossible because it takes so long to load it that it just pops up with an error after a minute.
The strange thing is that it's still functional, just horribly slow. I am now trying to back up my music to an external HD, just in case this hard drive completely goes out, but the transfer rate is 360 Kb/s.
So, here's my question: what can possibly be wrong here and is there a way to fix it? Is there a reason both of my drives would give me trouble at the same time?
It's not a huge problem for me to just replace the hard drive if it's beyond fixing but I don't want to lose my music/movies/games in the process and with it being so slow, I don't see myself waiting for a week to back up the data.
I'm trying to figure out what's going wrong with my hard drive(s). Hopefully, someone here can help. Here's the situation:
I run 2 hard drives: OCZ Vertex 60GB SSD for OS mostly and a WD Caviar Green 1TB for media and game storage.
About 3 days ago I was shutting down the computer to go to sleep and it got stuck on shutting down screen (Windows 7). After waiting 2-3 minutes (it wasn't even installing updates) I just held down the power button and went to bed. Next morning, trying to boot up, I got a disk read error, so I spent my Saturday morning re-installing Win 7 and all of the drivers, MS office, etc. When it was all done, hard drives seemed to work fine, so I just blamed it on my stupidity and went on with my life.
Last night, I again shut down the computer and it went to the shut down screen as normal, except it popped up with some error, which I didn't get to read as it shut down almost instantly after that. Booting up next time, I got disk read error again, so I made sure BIOS had my SSD selected as only bootable drive and this time it gave me BOOTMGR is missing. So, I used the Win 7 disk to repair installation. However, after it fixed Windows, the screen that says "Starting Windows" takes a good 10 minutes to get through.
When in windows, my SSD seems to function normally, but my WD is now RIDICULOUSLY slow. It takes up to a minute to open a folder and accessing a video file is impossible because it takes so long to load it that it just pops up with an error after a minute.
The strange thing is that it's still functional, just horribly slow. I am now trying to back up my music to an external HD, just in case this hard drive completely goes out, but the transfer rate is 360 Kb/s.
So, here's my question: what can possibly be wrong here and is there a way to fix it? Is there a reason both of my drives would give me trouble at the same time?
It's not a huge problem for me to just replace the hard drive if it's beyond fixing but I don't want to lose my music/movies/games in the process and with it being so slow, I don't see myself waiting for a week to back up the data.
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