Random stuttering of whole system from time to time

Insanitic · 05 Jul 2013

Britton30 said:

Have a look through newegg.ca, the US store has some low prices on some HDDs lately.

Will do, and thanks everyone who helped me, I'll try all software recommendations and clone the drive and then try to fix it with Seatools

Layback Bear · 05 Jul 2013

Okay Insanitic let us know what you do and how it all comes out.
Luck to you.

Insanitic · 05 Jul 2013

Layback Bear said:

Okay Insanitic let us know what you do and how it all comes out.
Luck to you.

Thanks for all your help layback

ICIT2LOL · 05 Jul 2013

Well to me this smells of a faulty read arm inside the drive it is either sticking because of a faulty bearing or the electro magnetic pulses are being thrown around by either faulty circuitry in the controller or the connections between the two.

smarteyeball · 05 Jul 2013

Insanitic said:

will it be problem to mirror a drive that has bad sectors?

No.

The only issue it could really cause if some data need by app existed in that bad sector, then it would be 'missing' on the new drive.

Insanitic · 13 Jul 2013

tried seatools dos and did the long test/fix and guess what? It found 83 corrupted sectors and fixed them all. I rebooted the machine and after a few days or so, no stuttering has happened and everything is running smoothly!

gregrocker · 13 Jul 2013

I would not trust it to one test, but follow up with another Seatools long scan followed by Disk Check at least once more now and then periodically.

Many experienced users never again trust a drive that has ever gone that bad.

But we're glad it helped.

Insanitic · 13 Jul 2013

gregrocker said:

I would not trust it to one test, but follow up with another Seatools long scan followed by Disk Check at least once more now and then periodically.

Many experienced users never again trust a drive that has ever gone that bad.

But we're glad it helped.

After it fixed it, I did do another long scan and no errors were reported. I will check again with disk check but the windows utility really didn't help much since before I used seatools, it did not detect ANY errors while crystaldisk mark info detected the errors and also seatools detected the errors and fixed them.

gregrocker · 13 Jul 2013

These test two different things: Diagnostics test the surface condition of the HD itself, while Disk Check tests the File System residing on it. So running both gives you a picture of the whole disk.

Monitoring SMART with a program like Crystal Disk Info is diagnostic.

Insanitic · 14 Jul 2013

gregrocker said:

These test two different things: Diagnostics test the surface condition of the HD itself, while Disk Check tests the File System residing on it. So running both gives you a picture of the whole disk.

Monitoring SMART with a program like Crystal Disk Info is diagnostic.

Ok then, I'll do a disk check just in case. Thanks everyone!