Hdd disk usage and other awesome issues

[DeeDeeDevon]

Hello, here is my situation. When booting, with only the ssd plugged in everything goes smoothly and there is no problems once in windows. When booting with both ssd and hdd plugged in, sometimes it will just stay on the loading screen, but one time it scanned and repaired some volume. After booting and loading into windows, the hdd stays at 100% the entire time (hours of idle) with several services being the cause, of which, stopping these services had no effect. In bios the hdd says it is uefi, but I formatted it before I used it. Its only about half full. If I boot then plug in the hdd, explorers progress bar takes forever to load, and usually just stops at about 95%. One time I was given the option to format the drive before using it, but I would like to get some work off it before hand. The drive and system is only 6 months old. Please help, this has been extremely frustrating for the past few months.

 

[RolandJS]

Is it possible to post a screen shot of both drives using Windows Disk Management with the fields expanded enough to show the information?

 

[DeeDeeDevon]

Is it possible to post a screen shot of both drives using Windows Disk Management with the fields expanded enough to show the information?

I can give it another try later today, but I tried opening WDM but that was unable to open or load, even though the ssd was at idle, the hdd was pegged at 100%. Every disk utility application I tried opening had this fault.

 

[hang-the-9]

Sounds like the drive is going bad.

 

[DeeDeeDevon]

Sounds like the drive is going bad.

If so, that is depressing considering its not much over half a year old. My next questions would be, possibilities of data recovery, and/or warranty coverage?

 

[hang-the-9]

Sounds like the drive is going bad.

If so, that is depressing considering its not much over half a year old. My next questions would be, possibilities of data recovery, and/or warranty coverage?

It's usually possible to recover data, depends on how much you can spend and how bad the drive is. Warranty you need to contact the drive maker support.

Go to the drive vendor site, they should have a drive scan utility, run that, see what it comes up with as a result on your drive. Remove the drive, see if it will work as an external drive, try a Linux Live boot disk, it may be able to read the drive so you can copy the data from it. You can try using the ddrescue Linux program to image the drive with the issue onto a good one and then try to get the data from that imaged drive. That process can take days to finish as the utility copies the drive sector by sector and re-tries failures several times before going on to the next sector.

 

[RolandJS]

"...utility copies the drive sector by sector and re-tries failures several times before going on to the next sector..." You might want to run that by a DR specialist in any one of several data recovery forums -- I think I read that anything other than a one-time pass clone or full imaging -- will make DR recovery much harder and much more expensive.

 

[hang-the-9]

"...utility copies the drive sector by sector and re-tries failures several times before going on to the next sector..." You might want to run that by a DR specialist in any one of several data recovery forums -- I think I read that anything other than a one-time pass clone or full imaging -- will make DR recovery much harder and much more expensive.

This is not cloning to the failed drive but from it onto a known good drive. While trying to read the drive can increase the risk of doing some other damage to it, unless it's brought over to a data recovery shop now, it won't matter.

 

[RolandJS]

hang-the-9, I miss-read that part, thanks for catching me up!