PC Slow? Hard Drive Related? Any Help is Appreciated.

[Jacob Emmons]

Sometimes, my PC can get pretty slow, almost for no reason at all. Sometimes opening up a folder can be tedious. If I look at task manager, It'll show my disk usage at 100% at the times of slowness, and the main process using most of my disk isn't even really going at a high transfer rate. http://imgur.com/r7s7IvS

My Specs: i5 4670k, GTX 770, Asus z87-A, Western Digital Black 1T. (Western Digital
WD1002FAEX)

Thanks in advance,
Jacob.

 

[casper1973]

Download the WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool and run an extended test on the hard drive (Can take a few hours).
http://support.wd.com/product/download.asp?groupid=613&lang=en

Should give you a good indication if there are any problems with the drive.

If it does find problems I'm almost certain your drive will still be under warranty since you get 5 years on WD Black drives and the rest of your build looks less than 6 months old.

 

[Jacob Emmons]

Download the WD Data Lifeguard Diagnostic tool and run an extended test on the hard drive (Can take a few hours).
http://support.wd.com/product/download.asp?groupid=613&lang=en

Should give you a good indication if there are any problems with the drive.

If it does find problems I'm almost certain your drive will still be under warranty since you get 5 years on WD Black drives and the rest of your build looks less than 6 months old.

I have already used WD's datalifeguard, did the short test, and the long test, it said everything was good.

 

[casper1973]

Ok. Have you tried running a CHKDSK? Checks for bad clusters etc on the drive but will also verify file-system integrity.

Command Prompt (Run-as Administrator) > chkdsk /r c:

 

[Jacob Emmons]

I'm running it now, and it's been stuck at scanning and repairing drive (C): 12% complete for some time .

 

[reedo_43]

It takes forever!

 

[casper1973]

With no problems on the drive it would usually take 1-2 hours.

CHKDSK used to give you a detailed status of what was happening but MS decided to change that to with Windows 8. Now all you get is "Scanning and Repairing ... %" which is practically no use at all.

When it completes you can read the log file in Event Viewer - http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/96938-check-disk-chkdsk-read-event-viewer-log.html