My brother's Seagate Barracuda 2TB [ST2000DM 001] hard drive makes a short squeak sound before spinning up (you can hear it spin up, it sounds a little like it's grinding), and when this happens the computer freezes, however you can still move the mouse cursor. When we had Windows 8 on there, you could see in Task Manager that the disk usage shot up to 100%, with the Read/Write speeds at 0kb/s. It stayed like that for at least a minute, sometimes longer, before going back down to normal.
After having Windows 8 on there since Christmas, when we got the drive, we decided to switch to Windows 7. The problem still remains. Originally, I wiped only the partition with Windows 8 on it, and left the system partition there. On the second installation of Windows 7, a day or two later, as the problem was still there (this is the one on there at the moment), I deleted every partition on the drive before installing Windows 7 again. Nothing changed.
I've already run two malware scans with MalwareBytes, nothing was found in either of them (the second one was set to scan for rootkits as well as everything else). I also ran a SeaTools short AND full test, and that found nothing wrong either, so I'm stuck. If anyone has any idea how to fix this, or has encountered this themselves, some advice would be great. The drive's only a couple of months old, purchased on Amazon. There's no data on it, the only stuff that was on it is on his USB stick.
After having Windows 8 on there since Christmas, when we got the drive, we decided to switch to Windows 7. The problem still remains. Originally, I wiped only the partition with Windows 8 on it, and left the system partition there. On the second installation of Windows 7, a day or two later, as the problem was still there (this is the one on there at the moment), I deleted every partition on the drive before installing Windows 7 again. Nothing changed.
I've already run two malware scans with MalwareBytes, nothing was found in either of them (the second one was set to scan for rootkits as well as everything else). I also ran a SeaTools short AND full test, and that found nothing wrong either, so I'm stuck. If anyone has any idea how to fix this, or has encountered this themselves, some advice would be great. The drive's only a couple of months old, purchased on Amazon. There's no data on it, the only stuff that was on it is on his USB stick.
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