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Extremely slow HDD (read and write)
Hello.
I'm having problems with an almost full (97% full) Western Digital 1.5 TB 7200 RPM HDD.
If I try to read from it or write to it, it takes so long it's practically unusable. Even just loading up a directory in Windows Explorer may take multiple seconds.
I ran HD Tune Pro and the Health tab said the drive has unstable sectors (Number of unstable sectors: 1456), so I ran chkdsk /f, but HD Tune Pro still says the same thing and the drive is still sluggish.
HD Tune Pro also reports a high number of Interface CRC Errors for all my drives (even those that work fine).
What do I do?
EDIT: The error scan feature of HD Tune Pro does find some errors (9.8% damaged blocks). How do I fix these if chkdsk /f failed to do so?
Last edited by kornflex; 19 May 2013 at 18:20.