How can I fix my hard drive?

[refmon]

Everything would take much longer to load but run at the regular fps. I ran a chkdsk and it loads faster but now everything still needs to be opened once before it loads at regular speed. Loading the first game of dota is slow and then any game after is fast.

I assume this is a hard drive problem but I cant be sure.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=aowf0p&s=8#.VLA1-nvKMQk

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=33tqqdx&s=8#.VLA2MnvKMQk

There are the results of CrystalDisk. I don't understand most it, but hopefully someone can.

 

[refmon]

Forgot to add I`ve tried chkdsk and defrags

 

[Entomber]

It may be something other than your HDD, which seems healthy. If you wanted to, you could download HDTune and check for bad sectors (although if you did have bad sectors your computer would be much slower than you say).

What are your full specs?

 

[refmon]

I tried running hd tune but it runs at between 4-14mb and someone told me if the hard drive is damaged running a full sector scan on it through hd tune could damage it further. Should I just let hd tune fully run?

Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-bit
Intel Core i5 3570K
8.00 GB Dual-Channel DDR3
Z77X-UD3H
GTX 660
932GB Hitachi HDS721010DLE630

thanks for any help.

 

[Entomber]

you should let it run.

 

[refmon]

Alright thanks, I'll let it run before I leave tomorrow

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there refmon,

The results show that the HDD is perfectly fine. My advise would be to test your RAM(you can test it with some third party apps as well): http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/diagnosing-memory-problems-on-your-computer

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[fzabkar]

@refmon, could you show us HD Tune's read benchmark graph? It should be a smooth, monotonically decreasing curve with no large dips. Also, there should be no pronounced scatter in the access time data points.

 

[refmon]

@refmon, could you show us HD Tune's read benchmark graph? It should be a smooth, monotonically decreasing curve with no large dips. Also, there should be no pronounced scatter in the access time data points.

Here is the benchmark graph.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2lig29h&s=8#.VLXAnS7KMQk

Its been 6 hours but sadly my error scan isn't finished.

Thanks!

 

[fzabkar]

It's not the prettiest curve, but in a Windows environment it's hard to tell whether the dips are at least partly the result of interference from background tasks.

A full surface scan using MHDD in DOS would be a definitive test. That should pick up any "slow" sectors.

 

[refmon]

Not familiar with MHDD but ill download it when I get back

Any specifics I should know?

 

[refmon]

I'm probably missing something obvious but you give me a link to it? I got it from softpedia but its just giving me an empty file.

 

[fzabkar]

The first hit with Google gets you to the author's web site:

http://hddguru.com/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/