- Sep 16, 2015
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I'm going to try to resume the best I can. First, notice I'm not an advanced user, but I hope you can help me with this.
I have an ASUS K43E laptop, bought in April, 2013 (I don't think specs matter too much this time). Back in March, this year, I started noticing some lag in my laptop's performance, and I noticed in Task Manager my hard drive started to hit 100% usage, even if I wasn't running anything. Researched and tried all the solutions out there: disabling prefetch, superfetch, updates; running checkdisk, even re-installed windows (this solved the problem for a few weeks but it came back) until someone told me to try CrystalDiskInfo and check the state of my HDD. According to CDI, my HDD was about to fail (it had hit high Read Error Rate, Reallocated and Uncorrectable Sectors...) and I started saving for a new unit. One day I got the message "S.M.A.R.T. status bad, backup and replace"; so the day had come.
I bought a new one like 2 weeks ago (Hitachi HGST HTS541010A9E680 - similar to the one I had but with more capacity), installed it and everything was smooth and beautiful once again. It was performing nicely until, yesterday, I noticed 100% disc usage again. Suddenly, windows got stuck, so I rebooted, ran CDI and it said "Risk" and the only "yellow marked" parameter was "Number of pending sectors" (value: 95). It also had 85 on Read Error Rate. I started searching and apparently this was a solvable issue, but when I tried the solution I got (zero-filling), it gave me an error, something like "The instruction at 0x... referenced memory at 0x000... The memory could not be read". I tried turning to a restoration point but it said "Restore system is not working". Checkdisk found nothing. Tried reinstalling windows and got an error. Finally, today it showed me the message of death "S.M.A.R.T. status bad, backup and replace". The HDD has only been used for two and a half weeks!!
I now suspect there's something on my hardware that's destroying anything I put on that drive slot! But is it possible? My laptop's battery died about december last year, but the adapter works apparently fine. Is it possible that my adapter is not giving power the way it's meant to, and that is affecting my HDDs? What else could it be?
Any hints, clues or full responses will be very highly appreciated!
I have an ASUS K43E laptop, bought in April, 2013 (I don't think specs matter too much this time). Back in March, this year, I started noticing some lag in my laptop's performance, and I noticed in Task Manager my hard drive started to hit 100% usage, even if I wasn't running anything. Researched and tried all the solutions out there: disabling prefetch, superfetch, updates; running checkdisk, even re-installed windows (this solved the problem for a few weeks but it came back) until someone told me to try CrystalDiskInfo and check the state of my HDD. According to CDI, my HDD was about to fail (it had hit high Read Error Rate, Reallocated and Uncorrectable Sectors...) and I started saving for a new unit. One day I got the message "S.M.A.R.T. status bad, backup and replace"; so the day had come.
I bought a new one like 2 weeks ago (Hitachi HGST HTS541010A9E680 - similar to the one I had but with more capacity), installed it and everything was smooth and beautiful once again. It was performing nicely until, yesterday, I noticed 100% disc usage again. Suddenly, windows got stuck, so I rebooted, ran CDI and it said "Risk" and the only "yellow marked" parameter was "Number of pending sectors" (value: 95). It also had 85 on Read Error Rate. I started searching and apparently this was a solvable issue, but when I tried the solution I got (zero-filling), it gave me an error, something like "The instruction at 0x... referenced memory at 0x000... The memory could not be read". I tried turning to a restoration point but it said "Restore system is not working". Checkdisk found nothing. Tried reinstalling windows and got an error. Finally, today it showed me the message of death "S.M.A.R.T. status bad, backup and replace". The HDD has only been used for two and a half weeks!!
I now suspect there's something on my hardware that's destroying anything I put on that drive slot! But is it possible? My laptop's battery died about december last year, but the adapter works apparently fine. Is it possible that my adapter is not giving power the way it's meant to, and that is affecting my HDDs? What else could it be?
Any hints, clues or full responses will be very highly appreciated!
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