Huge lag after HDD breakdown?

[XGamer_BiH]

Hello,

A month or two ago, my HDD health started to drop from 100% to 52% in 5 days... Since then it started to lag hugely... After a wekk or two, it started to recover and a day to day it got up on 83% of health, still, perfomance was awful. Everything loads slower, much more lag, slower program opening, games load slower, much slower startup, HDD using is mostly at 100%. I really don't know what to do anymore... Get a new HDD, or just simply update my system to something better (current: Asus p5kse, q8200, 4gb ddr2, gtx470) I use a WDC wd10ezex-00bn5a0 HDD of 1tb... Any help please?

 

[scout_03]

use data lifeguard diagnostic from wd also check if it still under warranty anyway you gone need another hdd if this one is defective .

 

[XGamer_BiH]

use data lifeguard diagnostic from wd also check if it still under warranty anyway you gone need another hdd if this one is defective .

Yeah it is under warranty (I hope so) I'll check it, but the main problem is I have 600GB of files on it, I can't find a way to back that up... Thanks for you answer.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there XGamer_BiH,

Sorry that you are facing some issues with your WD drive.
This should be an OS HDD right?

Is the transfer speed really slow when you try to back up the data? Or the problem is that you don't have enough storage space?
In case it is the first one, you can try the Ubuntu Live CD approach out. Just boot up (don't install it) Ubuntu from a CD or a flash drive, access the drive and try to transfer the data to another one. Thread on that: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/267999-32-recover-data-mode

In case it is the second one, then you will need to find big enough internal or external drive soon. Your current drive could become inaccessible at any time.

As for the warranty, you can check whether the HDD is under warranty over here: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=vFotmL

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD