HDD going nuts, 100% constantly

[jscuz80]

Hey guys, so my 2 year old seagate 3 TB HDD has gone out of control, its been running at 100% non stop (performance & resource monitor) I cannot do any thing on it. tried virus scan, 30 mins and still at 1%, its slowing down my pc and causing crashes in games. Thing is its been working fine till last night, was watching movies on it all week. this morning I DL a TV episode, when it finished the pc started acting up then the drive went off its nut and wont come back, I went in and deleted the DL and pc works better but HDD still not usable, but still causes issues when connected. Doesn't get used all that much and I'm running a 10 year old seagate inside my pc with a 5 year old WD as well. is this a virus?
thanks in advance.

 

[elderMat7]

Check task manager. What is making the drive go up to 100%?

 

[mdd1963]

Does CrystalDiskInfo show any sectors with errors, degraded health, etc...?

Might be time to finally spring for an SSD?

(The 3 TB drives from a few manufacturers had failure rates well above double those experienced over 2 or even 4 TB drives)

 

[jscuz80]

Check task manager. What is making the drive go up to 100%?

its an external usb drive, its not showing in Task manager only resource manager but i cant check it in RM just that its at 100% and now its not reading the drive at all, shows it there in the drive list but cant access the data.

 

[mdd1963]

Hope it's data is backed up, as it now sounds 'done for'...

you can try refridgerating it as a last ditch effort to perhaps recover a few files from it...*if* needed.

If data is not critical/is redownloadable/backed-up, smash it with a hammer, and spare yourself the headaches...