Not sure of cause of hard drive issue

[FEIX20]

For years, my hard drive has been a bit suspect, after days without a reboot especially it can get quite laggy, with long times accessing, sometimes for tiny actions.

But usually, a reboot gave it a temporary fix. Tonight, that got worse.

I rebooted, and started Rift. 'We cannot update your files and have to do a complete download'. Something like 15gb. No thank you, we'll try World of Tanks.

So I started World of Tanks, and trying to enter a match - witch it has done thousands of times ok - it took until 3 minutes into the match - and then 'server disconnected'.

Even now - after exiting world of tanks, and just posting this with almost nothing else running, the disk access has been constant for the last 10 minutes, and still is.

I've wondered, is there something going wrong with the 5 year old hard drive? Something wrong with the OS install? It's never been defragged - 15gb free of 1tb - but still.
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[Phillip Corcoran]

Test the hard drive with the drive maker's diagnostic software for DOS which loads from a bootable CD which you make from the CD image.

For WD hard drives, the link is here (direct download): http://www.smartestcomputing.us.com/topic/63494-looking-for-western-digital-data-lifeguard-iso/

For Seagate or any other brand of HDD: http://www.seagate.com/gb/en/support/downloads/item/seatools-dos-master/

You can also use HGST Drive Fitness Test on any brand of drive that's less than 3TB capacity:
http://www.hgst.com/support/downloads/legacy-downloads#DFT

The bootable CD can be created from the CD image with IMGBurn: http://filehippo.com/download_imgburn

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there FEIX20,

It will be a good idea to start with testing the drive. Given the fact that the drive is about 5 years old, my guess is that there may be something wrong with it. I would advise to back up the data on it regularly.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD