HDD issue.....

[legendary70]

Yes there are many programs that start up with my comp. the ones I mentioned are only the ones on the taskbar. Yes I already did a clean install....twice within the last month. It has new RAM in it. I got some Kingston a few months back for a total of 12 gigs.

I will try that disk frag program and see what happens. It just bothers me that when I turn it on....it keeps loading stuff for at least 2 minutes. while the whole time I click on IE to open and off course it wont open until after the 2 to 2 1/2 minutes of loading. then it continues to read stuff for a while longer. then finally the hdd light stops. it a pain to wait and wait. thx.

I post results later on today.

 

[Pickles Von Brine]

Working at a repair shop and experiencing hard drive failures first hand daily, and judging from the info provided, your drive is definitely on its way out. I would back everything up and replace your drive.

 

[Jetster]

Working at a repair shop and experiencing hard drive failures first hand daily, and judging from the info provided, your drive is definitely on its way out. I would back everything up and replace your drive.

Clearly the smart data says its not.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Anybody fancy a quick Hard Disc Sentinel ?


http://www.hdsentinel.com/


might tell you something you dont already know. Free trial

 

[Pickles Von Brine]

Clearly the smart data says its not.

I have had on multiple instances where a hard drive passes surface and smart scan, however, the hard drive is still failing. You can have issues where a read/write head is going bad which will degrade performance. This is something that will not show up in SMART nor a surface scan, but a performance scan such as the one the OP ran:

There is definitely something amiss here. I have a 1TB hard drive that was just changed out that performed in a very similar fashion. The minimum read spead in this test should not be that low and the graphic should not be so chaotic either. It should be a nice gradual downward decline as you get to the inner sections of the disk. The access time should be a nice arching graphic going up and closely mapped together and almost intersecting with the speed graphic like this:

Yes, my drive is newer and larger, but it is healthy. His/hers is not.

So again, from experience (I fix about 200-300 machines a month for about 5 years now and 1/2 to 3/4 of those are failing drives), the system does appear to have signs of a failing hard drive.

To be on the safe side, replace it.

 

[Jetster]

I have had on multiple instances where a hard drive passes surface and smart scan, however, the hard drive is still failing. You can have issues where a read/write head is going bad which will degrade performance. This is something that will not show up in SMART nor a surface scan, but a performance scan such as the one the OP ran:

There is definitely something amiss here. I have a 1TB hard drive that was just changed out that performed in a very similar fashion. The minimum read spead in this test should not be that low and the graphic should not be so chaotic either. It should be a nice gradual downward decline as you get to the inner sections of the disk. The access time should be a nice arching graphic going up and closely mapped together and almost intersecting with the speed graphic like this:

Yes, my drive is newer and larger, but it is healthy. His/hers is not.

So again, from experience (I fix about 200-300 machines a month for about 5 years now and 1/2 to 3/4 of those are failing drives), the system does appear to have signs of a failing hard drive.

To be on the safe side, replace it.

And that is stuff running in the back ground during the test. Kill all the backgroud process you dont need and run it again. But I hear ya

 

[Pickles Von Brine]

And that is stuff running in the back ground during the test. Kill all the backgroud process you dont need and run it again. But I hear ya

I was folding when the test was ran. After running the test again without folding, there was no difference in hard drive performance, so I just used the screenshot I had created before.

CPU usage usually does not equate to changes in hard drive performance, especially since the hard drive I was testing has a file system that isn't even compatible with windows to begin with.

 

[jsfitz54]

Back up your important files.

Download ISO of your version of Windows 7: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...-install/5a500a5b-ac70-4c6d-8cad-57e73f1936d0

Burn ISO to DVD. This version has no key--you will use the key off the PC when prompted to enter.

My suggestions are: Make your rescue disks (you can then go back to square 1 if need be) , usually 3 DVD's required for HP.

Do a full format of the drive, both C and D partitions (D will be deleted along with all the bloatware HP packs in). A full format will do a better job of stressing the HD and if it fails you know it was going bad.

Load ISO, creating C drive only. Delete all partitions first then create partition C. There will be no D partition or anything HP. See how that works.

You may need to download specific model drivers from HP first and save to flash drive for after Windows is done installing.

Make sure you get all the Windows Updates.