very slow western digital 1 T

[Genelli]

I am trying to remove folders from the drive because I think it is failing. It is so slow 6 to 8 hours to remove a folder it more often than not leaves some parts on the hard drive and I then have to try again to remove them. is there a way of boosting the energy to the hard drive. the usb 3 is plugged into usb2 which theoretically should be ok.

 

[Mirakledba]

WD are for saving power so they arent that great....at least some.

Make sure everything else is closed. No applications open, NOTHING. Try to drag your files as you usually would, see if closing the stuff works. Also, if you have another PC. May i ask, do you want to REPLACE the harddrive or just delete some folders?


I HIGHLY advice you get a WD black or a Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm 1TB. GET AN SSD IF YOU CAN, if not

WD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2W00ZD1577
Seagate:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840

The WD black is better

 

[Hawkeye22]

The drive most likely has bad sectors. This causes the drive to reread a sector until it reads the data or fails and moves on to the next sector. I don't think there is a way to speed it up other than possibly clone the drive and turn off error checking in the cloning software. You would then have a duplicate drive minus any unreadable data.

 

[Mirakledba]

Yeah I agree with hawkeye. Its going to be hard to transfer :/ just transfer the files you need and format the drive or throw it away and just get a new one. WD black is awesome