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Checking Disk VERY slowly
I was having very slow (>1mb/s) data transfer from and to this drive so I am running the Error Check option from the device properties menu. I have only the first box, "automatically fix file system errors", checked.
This is a Western Digital 600GB 7200RPM Black HDD.
so far i have had it running for over an hour and it's processed 18k files, and there is just a sliver of green in the progress bar.
I had a problem like this before with this drive. Just last week I installed an new ssd as my OS drive and had some problems with this HDD. It was extending boot up times by an additional 20 seconds, and would transfer data very very slowly. I was able to run a check disk from within explorer and, although slow at first, it eventually finished and the drive seemed to operate fine.
I;m going to wait this out a bit longer, but I guess I'm asking if there is anything else i can do.