New HDD works very slow.
I received a new HDD (Seagate barracuda) a couple of days ago to replace my old one. I installed W7 onto it, and when I tried installing games through steam I kept receiving Disk read/write errors. Other than that a lot of programs, and windows freeze for no apparent reason.
So I checked out my HDD in HDtune and it told me I have 3 bad blocks.
I tried resolving my issues with chkdsk, running chkdsk /r a whole night but it ended up getting stuck at the final stage.
Is it normal for new HDD to already have bad sectors, and is it fixable or should I just go ahead and ask for a replacement?
I received a new HDD (Seagate barracuda) a couple of days ago to replace my old one. I installed W7 onto it, and when I tried installing games through steam I kept receiving Disk read/write errors. Other than that a lot of programs, and windows freeze for no apparent reason.
So I checked out my HDD in HDtune and it told me I have 3 bad blocks.
I tried resolving my issues with chkdsk, running chkdsk /r a whole night but it ended up getting stuck at the final stage.
Is it normal for new HDD to already have bad sectors, and is it fixable or should I just go ahead and ask for a replacement?