Question My HDD Died Suddenly.

[HaroldTheUnseen]

My HDD was perfect until yesterday. It was as fast as it can get. But yesterday windows login screen took too long to successfully do its thing. I upgraded my GPU yesterday, i used official AMD driver remover to remove the old driver in safe mode and installed my new geforce driver. I did a lot of benchmarks i dont know if it affects, i also did HDD speed benchmarks cause i used Userbenchmark a couple of times. I dont know what triggered this but my HDD is 1/3 slower now compared to 1 week before. I checked if i did any windows updates (i remember windows told me that there were a few windows updates but i was removing my driver then so i didnt care about that too much and started my system in safe mod anyway) but there were no major updates. I checked Defrag to see if my HDD is okay and Defrag stats were perfect. I downloaded Seagate Tools (i have seagate barracuda) and checked if something is wrong with my HDD. Did SMART scan, and some more HDD scans in that program. Nothing seems wrong. My HDD just passed all of tests, i really dont understand whats wrong. Im downloaded win10 2004 update and its installing now (which is taking forever) im kinda scared update wont be succesfull.

 

[USAFRet]

Well, stopping an Update in the middle is generally not a good idea.

How is it working right? Good, or are there problems?

 

[HaroldTheUnseen]

Well, stopping an Update in the middle is generally not a good idea.

How is it working right? Good, or are there problems?

I did not stop the update in the middle. I stopped update download in the middle, so my computer did not boot to update the version, driver update never beggined.

 

[USAFRet]

I did not stop the update in the middle. I stopped update download in the middle, so my computer did not boot to update the version, driver update never beggined.

Ah, OK.

So now...diagnose the potential hard drive issue. If there is one.

 

[HaroldTheUnseen]

Ah, OK.

So now...diagnose the potential hard drive issue. If there is one.

I did tried to diagnose like i said before. I tried it with Seagate app and Windows app none of them found drive issue but my drive is still too slow.

 

[USAFRet]

I did tried to diagnose like i said before. I tried it with Seagate app and Windows app none of them found drive issue but my drive is still too slow.

Right.
And now, determine why it is slow.
Hardware or software? Corrupted OS, or dying drive.

All the software, so far, reports a apparently healthy physical drive.

 

[HaroldTheUnseen]

Ah, OK.

So now...diagnose the potential hard drive issue. If there is one.

Some people say HDD sentinel is a good program to check for bad sectors. Should i try that app? Im willing to do anything to know what's the issue

 

[USAFRet]

Before you do anything else, I strongly suggest a good backup of your critical data.

 

[HaroldTheUnseen]

Right.
And now, determine why it is slow.
Hardware or software? Corrupted OS, or dying drive.

All the software, so far, reports a apparently healthy physical drive.

So there is no way other than restoring my computer to previous restore point.

 

[HaroldTheUnseen]

Before you do anything else, I strongly suggest a good backup of your critical data.

Meh this HDD is not that important for me so i do not have a critical data. Only games and such.

 

[USAFRet]

Meh this HDD is not that important for me so i do not have a critical data. Only games and such.

Well then....

Is it still 'slow'?

 

[HaroldTheUnseen]

Well then....

Is it still 'slow'?

checking things up ATM

 

[HaroldTheUnseen]

Well then....

Is it still 'slow'?

I restarted my PC. HDD is kinda faster now but its still nowhere near the old version idk what can be done now. Im considering restoring to a previous point.

 

[HaroldTheUnseen]

Well then....

Is it still 'slow'?

I know I bothered you more than i should have but i wanna ask if these results are normal?
https://prnt.sc/vfd4xu