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Hard Disk Sentinel is worth a look but CrystalDiskInfo will also give you that information. Hell, AIDA64 gives you that info under Storage -> SMART for that matter.
*USB 3.0 to 2.5" SATA - Super important if you're pulling drives and want to test them in another computer, or simply want to run data recovery software
*Solid all around toolbox program
*Hard Disk Sentinel HD health and temp program. Trial version is free but well worth a purchase.
*Buy a bunch of 4GB USB's and make Windows 7, 8, 10, MAC OSX images using Rufus
I'm not much of a software guy, mostly a hardware one. But to check if your RAM is faulty, you can download MemTest86 onto a USB stick and boot from it. It will scan your memory, I highly recommend to scan it for 12 hours+.
You can also download HD Sentinal to check your drive that is freaking out.
Do you only have one internal drive?
So no SSD?
How old is it?
You should do these tests to at least know that it's not an hardware issue.
I suggest you download hard disk sentinel (or some similar tool) and have a look at their temperatures. Anything, above 40 celsius is bad for your drives. Also you can find out the health status of your drives by cheking the S.M.A.R.T section. Furthermore, you should run a surface/short/hard test on your drives, in order to be certain that everything is fine.
Not very secure but if the files are fairly big then you could use HDDsentinel surface test in overwrite mode with the random order configuration. It will write random blocks in a random order, making the files corrupted. The longer it runs the more the data gets corrupted. Someone could still see the filenames and might be able to recover parts of the files, but they will be incomplete / corrupted. Better than not erasing anything if your deadline is 4 hours.
Unplug the machine immediately. Pull the hard drive and plug it into an enclosure like this one. Retrieve your files and data before even THINKING about trying to make it boot on its own. The words "irreplaceable files" have special meaning to me and I hold them with the upmost of importance.
Once your data is secured (fully backed-up), plug the drive back into the machine to see if it will boot. Better yet, run something like this utility (whether while it is in the enclosure or back in the machine after rebooting) to see if the drive is damaged in any way. Use Windows media to attempt a recovery, if required.
Good luck.
What are they testing exactly? It's incredibly vague and what tests are different than SMARTS or other tests done by diagnostic softwares?
Testing softwares including HDSentinel or PCDoctor.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/index.php
SMARTS tests:
Conveyance Self-Test
Extended Self-Test
Short Self-Test
Status Thresholds
General Purpose Log Reader
AttributesoLog Reader
Selective Self-Test
SSD Tests:
Linear Read Pattern
Random Seek
Wear Level
NVDIMM Status
NVMe Status
NVME Wear Level
Read Speed
Write Speed
SCSI Wear Level
Targeted Read
SMART Wear Level Test
Result of a quick Google. Never used it though so can't comment other than to say this exists:
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If you are asking about measuring hard drive health, then Hard Disk Sentinel is hands down the most advanced utility that I know of. It tracks the SMART data of the disk over time, using changes to estimate overall health. This gives a much better early warning if something odd is going on with the drive. I run a Read+Write+Read surface test on every new disk. The singular downside of this utility is that the complete program is only for windows. There is a less comprehensive command line version for linux, that I've yet to play with, but intend to when I actually have some free time. I believe it can generate html reports to be viewed in a browser.
Firstly I want to make sure the storage device is fine, download hard disk sentinel and then on the top left of the program it will say the health of the hard drive ranging from 0 to 100% (bad to good)
https://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php
Also for the time being can you backup all important data to external storage.
I use hard drive sentinel pro. You can set it to scan every minute, preventing disk from sleeping. It monitors disk health and I've saved 18tb of plots by moving them before drive failed, shortly after. Seriously worth getting it https://www.hdsentinel.com/products.php
Yes. If you continue to have problems I suggest you buy https://www.hdsentinel.com/store.php
as it keeps drives awake and you can set it to check drives every minute, preventing them from sleeping. I ended up buying after trial and glad I did. Every farmer should have this as it checks your drives health daily. Just moved over a failing drive, and inly lost 3 plots, compared to whole drive if I'd left it.
This. This is the BEST response.
I want to add:
0) Check the CPU temperature to mitigate thermal throttling. May need to reapply high quality thermal paste if CPU temperature is causing it to throttle its own performance.
1) ensure your PC is recognizing/utilizing all available RAM - in Windows OS the task manager gives you a visual. You want to ensure your dont have yoo much RAM "hardware reserved". If this is the case, power down PC, disconnect power cable, fully discharge motherboard, unseat and free at RAM.
2) Try to ensure minimum 20% free disk space. HDDs/SAD hate being in the red (almost full or <10% free) CCLeaner or something like WINDIRSTAT will help get a visual on whats using space.
3) If you still have a spinning mechanic drive for your OS, get an SSD with equal capacity (or more if in budget) and use an application like Macrium Reflect (free - personal) to make a complete clone onto the SSD. Then simply swap the HDD with the SSD clone, power up your PC. Should connect to same SATA data/power without issue.
4) If already equipped with an SSD, refer to (2) and/or check for latest firmware updates. Could be failing flash, many utilities out there can report on disk health - I like https://www.hdsentinel.com/
Good luck!
it is hard to tell but best to backup the data just in case. i use hd sentinels https://www.hdsentinel.com to monitor my 29 disks and it can monitor usb hdd as well. so far it help me prevent any data lost… it is good practice at least mirror of data that how my setup is. I’m using freesync to sync data to another hdd rather than raid 1 since my data dont change that much
Hard drives are spinning disks and the information is contained on the disks,if a little part of the disk gets even a little bit damaged the reader wouldn't be able to tell what's on it.Those parts become bad sectors and there are certain Apps like Crystal disk that will tell you if you should replace your hard drive or not ,judging by how intact is the disk.Those should be helpful since my friend for example just found out his HDD is dying and immediately backed up his data before his hard drive gave it's last breath.
It is never normal to have such large loading times,you should replace your HDD.
Use this app: to see how damaged is it
- To check the health, use a HDD diagnostics software like HDD Scan or Hard Disk Sentinel. Personally I like Hard Disk Sentinel when selling drives because it can create a nice little report and graphs showing the drive is in good health. With either program, do a full surface scan and/or long SMART test.
- To wipe data that can't realistically be recovered, the best method is a DoD 3 pass wipe. You can do this with several free utilities. Darik's boot and nuke(DBAN) is the most common. I believe the Ultimate Boot CD still has the free version on it. Boot to UBCD and then launch DBAN. Select the disk and wipe method(DoD 3 pass) and let it run. Depending on the size of the drives, it can take more than 24 hours. Theoretically you could just write 0's to the disk(1 pass) and be safe from someone recovering data. However, if you want to ensure it's gone, DoD 3 pass is the most you need to do.
- As for the rig you're selling, again DBAN and then reinstall Windows/Linux if you are putting an operating system on it.
The DBAN procedure can be done with just the system with the drive in it as it's booted from CD or USB Stick.
You can get the OEM Samsung drives (1TB SM961 = $149.99) but these lack Samsung software (Magician) support. I use Hard Disk Sentinel to monitor all of my drives but it can be convenient to have all of them under one roof, so to speak. I don't use ADATA's as it didn't seem to work that well with the NVMe drives. I'd check out HDS and see if that will meet your needs first. The SX8200 Pro is obviously a solid drive with only some limitations in edge cases (see AnandTech's EX950/SX8200 Pro article). Puget's recommendations are pretty sound - I have the NVMe/NVMe/SSD/HDD setup myself (more or less).
Hmmm kan det virkelig passe det er en 1’8 og altså IKKE 2,5? Det ligner sgu da en 2,5er.. men her står der det er en 1,8.. det format kender jeg slet ikke.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=TOSHIBA%20MK1633GSG
If you go to the hard disk sentinel site, you'll see a pop up with links to get a 55% discount on a single license of the professional version for $13.48 as well as a "Family" plan of 5 licenses for $23.85.
I think the family plan is a better deal, especially if you have more than one machine, since you technically need one license per machine.
I had this problem a year ago. Unfortunately it was because my HDD was failing. I would suggest you backup all the data. First check with CrystalDiskInfo for the smart value & Read/write error. I would also suggest running HardDisk Sentinel. If your disk is failing, this software will definitely detect it.
That means your drive doesn't have a smart entry.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=HITACHI%20HTS545025B9SA00
If it's not dead, like the company's website, I wouldn't worry about it.
The 20+4 CPU power connector is normal. If the port it connects to has 24 pins, all 24 pins of the connector should be connected. There may additionally be a four pin power connector that plugs into a different section of the motherboard. Ensure everything looks normal with the motherboard and everything connecting to the motherboard.
Second, download a HDD analyzing tool such as this one and ensure all your drive(s) are operating properly. This tool will report any potential failure prior to loss of data (hopefully).
Good luck.
>Today it seems that anything that is trying to read/write to my HDD seems to make said process freeze.Eg. Cannot install Seagate SeaTools to check my hard drive. On one partition it saves properly but refuses to open when, on the other the file refuses to save when downloaded or copied over, resulting in a corrupted 0byte file.
In all probabilities the HDD is corrupted. Take it back to the other computer and run HD Sentinel to confirm.
For alternative software I use Hard Disk Sentinel (highly recommended if you run as many drives as I do) but both CrystalDiskInfo and AIDA64 will also pull SMART data indicating lifespan and writes.
As other other user has mentioned you need another application to read SMART data
I personally use Hard Disk Sentinel to check SMART as its more easier to read it will rate the drive health ranging from 0 to 100% (bad to good) and the number of weak or bad sectors.
I have grown to really like https://www.hdsentinel.com/ for monitoring my hd health. It gives you detailed info about your hd. Keep an eye out on https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/ for deals. Also they have an SSD button on the side so you can just see what deals are on ssd.
> Hard Disk Sentinel Pro https://www.hdsentinel.com/
Hard disagree there. You'll get so many false positives with HD Sentinel. It's much better to just read the SMART values and make a professional judgment. It can be done with smartmontools which is a GPL licensed FOSS tool like TestDisk. 5, 187, 188, 197, and 198 are the magic SMART attributes and they're never abstracted by the manufacturer. They're all tracked as events in the raw value and they're the most reliable attributes indicating failure. Learn to read SMART and your gut instincts over time will be far more reliable than any pass/fail hard drive program. Plus the HD Sentinel website makes some really fucking outrageous claims about what it does.
I actually purchased a license for it, too. It's been well worth the investment since it just runs in the background and will notify me of any problems.
Connect the HDD to another computer (with its own OS) and run HD Sentinel to check the problematic HDD's health. In all probabilities it would be failing.
Copy over whatever important data you possibly can from that HDD before junking it.
You will need to do a fresh install on a new HDD.
Hello
Download HD-Sentinel Portable please:
Unzip it and then run the **HDSentinel.exe**.
Then post pictures from the Overview and S.M.A.R.T results from your drive.
Before doing this, enlarge the window of the S.M.A.R.T values so that you can see them all.
Upload the pictures on imgur.com and share the link here.
Download HD-Sentinel Portable:
https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdsentinel_pro_portable.zip
Unzip it and then run the HDSentinel.exe.
Then post pictures from the Overview and S.M.A.R.T results from your drive.
Before doing this, enlarge the window of the S.M.A.R.T values so that you can see them all.
Upload the pictures on imgur.com and share the link here.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=WDC%20WD3200BUCT
This is what you got it's just a basic hdd. If it doesn't have any bad sectors it's good, you can get a cheap enclosure and use it as an external drive. I have a wd 750gb from 2008 that still works its slow af but I just use it to keep old game mods on it.
Ouch, that sucks. I haven't used HDDScan in a while. I did a quick google for some similar issues and it seems HDDScan has had issues with the write test over USB.
It shouldn't be showing bad blocks like that though.
If you want to, then just do a full format in Windows:
FORMAT <driveletter>: /FS:NTFS /X
This will write all zeros across the disk and let you know if there's any bad sectors during the format. Then you can do an extended smart test which will read the disk and/or a Windows CHKDSK <driveletter>: /F from the command line which will read the entire disk surface and identify and attempt to fix any bad sectors.
If you want, check out stablebit.com and download Scanner. They have a 30 day free trial. It does a full read sweep of all sectors. I've used that for years without issue, found some bad sectors too and saved my butt. It's a paid product though, unfortunately, but worth it in my opinion. I use it to scan all my disks in my windows server every month.
Also, check out hard disk sentinel (https://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php). It's also a paid product, but it is rock solid with respect to full disk write and read testing.
Download HD-Sentinel Portable:
https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdsentinel_pro_portable.zip
Unzip it and then run the HDSentinel.exe.
Then post a pictures from the Overview and S.M.A.R.T results from your drive.
Before doing this, enlarge the window of the S.M.A.R.T values so that you can see them all.
Upload the pictures on imgur.com and share the link here.
Thanks for the heads up on this, OP!
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For anyone else reading this, just a FYI that you can use your license key to activate it on the portable edition instead (if you preferred)
https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_professional.php
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Also, while the file downloaded from BitsDuJour matches the checksum for the v5.70 Installer, I recommend downloading the file from the software vendor's site directly instead, just as a security precaution.
While I prefer CrystalDiskInfo's UI, I love how you can monitor health of your NAS or server disks with Hard Disk Sentinel on your main computer. Surface tests is also another great feature.
Okay.
That's good news.
Download HD-Sentinel Portable:
https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdsentinel_pro_portable.zip
Unzip it and then run the HDSentinel.exe.
Then post a pictures from the Overview and S.M.A.R.T results from your drive.
Before doing this, enlarge the window of the S.M.A.R.T values so that you can see them all.
Upload the pictures on imgur.com and share the link here.
Ditch those insane subscription fees and check out Hard Disk Sentinel which gives you an easy to understand report of your drives based on SMART results.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_linux.php
https://www.hdsentinel.com/how_to_monitor_network_attached_storage_nas_status.php
depends on the controller in the enclosure (not all of them handle the SMART data), but it will probably work with a modern drive. Here is the compatibility list.
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Maybe HDD has bad sector.
Check using this software then how many percent perfomance and health.
Error code 0x80070057 means E_INVALIDARG - One or more arguments are invalid.
Download HD-Sentinel Portable:
https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdsentinel_pro_portable.zip
Unzip it and then run the HDSentinel.exe.
Then post a pictures from the Overview and S.M.A.R.T results from your drive.
Before doing this, enlarge the window of the S.M.A.R.T values so that you can see them all.
Upload the pictures on imgur.com and share the link here.
The verification will likely fail with an error code.
Let me know with which one.
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Download HD-Sentinel Portable:
https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdsentinel_pro_portable.zip
Unzip it and then run the HDSentinel.exe.
Then post a pictures from the Overview and S.M.A.R.T results from your drives.
Before doing this, enlarge the window of the S.M.A.R.T values so that you can see them all.
Upload the pictures on imgur.com and share the link here.
Download HD-Sentinel Portable:
https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdsentinel_pro_portable.zip
Unzip it and then run the HDSentinel.exe.
Change the Language to English - Configuration - Preferences.
Then post a picture from the Overview and S.M.A.R.T results from your System Drive.
Before doing this, enlarge the window of the S.M.A.R.T values so that you can see them all.
I believe so. I usually only buy if shipped and sold from Amazon or sold by the actual OEM (like WD). Invoice only shows "Sold by: AMAZON"
Stress test however you want to. I'm more familiar with Windows. I use Hard Disk Sentinel (https://www.hdsentinel.com/) and/or HDD Scan (https://hddscan.com/). Usually a good full disk write test followed by a full surface scan suffices. I also use Stablebit Scanner only because I own it and it runs a surface scan of all the disks in my Windows server automatically on a monthly basis.
> I've been told hard drive failure is inevitable. Since it's 8 years old, do I need to replace the original at this point?
I roughly expect a drive to survive 2000 days of power on time which is about five and a half years of active use. Depending on how much you've actually plugged it in (and what sort of a life it's lived), you may still get a decent amount of life out of it. Run it through Hard Disk Sentinel and see what it's got to say rather than taking a blind guess.
> Are big hard drives more likely to fail and therefore risky? I see there's a 14GB one on sale. I was warned 5GB was too big and much more likely to fail when I bought it back then
That argument is relevant for a 2.5" HDD but not so much for 3.5". As long as you're getting a 3.5" CMR drive (which your external 8TB+ WD tend to be while your Seagates may not be), you should be fine.
You may be able to run Hard Disk Sentinel for Linux which should provide a quick report on the state of your drives which will let you take the most appropriate action.
If HDS doesn't work on your Qnap, then you can DM me a pastebin of smartctl -r ataioctl,2 -d sat -a /dev/sdX > ~/smartsda.txt where sdX is the drive you're having issues.
Pull out the drive, plug it into a PC and run Hard Disk Sentinel's trial. That'll read out the hard drive's health in an easy to understand format and people can provide more accurate assistance from there.
you can use hdd sentinel https://www.hdsentinel.com to make a test but i recommend using samsung software since is made my them. i buyed a SSD like 7 years ago on a new build back then after 3 months it gone bad, i send it back for diagnostic and resulted as bad so they replace it
just because is new dont think it cant come bad
I have 12 active drives in my system and this has saved me from losing data a couple of times by alerting me when sectors start going bad., the other benefits - such as recording temps and graphing them - have actually came in somewhat useful. Especially when it comes to optimal airflow and placement of my super hot Gen 4 NVME drives.
So far I haven't seen OP post anything as to why he thinks he's infected other than "my PC was running really slow all of a sudden". There are numerous reasons that could cause that, none of which involve malware.
OP, post any details, any reason to suspect malware other than it's slow. If that is the only reason then first run a scan of the drive with either, or both, CrystalDiskInfo and Hard Disk Sentinel.
They will give you the status of the drive(s) in your system. A slow system is often the result of a failing drive as the system tries to work around failing reads or writes, remap bad sectors, etc.
If that doesn't turn up anything open task manager. Click "more details" and look at the "Performance tab". Look at CPU, Memory, Disk activity and Ethernet. Are any of those showing unusual activity?
15 years is pretty old for a hard disk. Mine started failing at 10 years old.
I was immensely helped in the task of diagnosing them, then deciding to change them, by the program Hard Disk Sentinel.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/index.php
The program's developer has also written extensive articles on his site, to explain why SMART is a very crude way to judge hard disks health, and very often gives no warning before failure.
Hard Disk Sentinel builds on SMART, but goes way further. Ther different types of proprietary surface diagnostics it offers give a very precise picture of a disk health.
Not only they allowed me to observe the state of my disks, try and repair them, then finally decide to replace them, but they allowed me to judge poorly of the state of an allegedly brand-new replacement disk bought on Amazon -- and return it, for a full refund.
Hard Disk Sentinel has a Linux free version. I'm under Windows, and at first sight, it seems that the Linux version does not have the most advanced and useful features. However, you can always test your disk with the Windows version if you have access to that operating system.
Yes, it's dying. Reallocated sector count raw value should be 0 for a healthy drive. This means that 1169 sectors are already dead, but there are no data loss yet, as these sectors were marked as dead and not used anymore. If you check your other drives, the raw value for this line should be 0.
Read the 3rd comment from this thread, it gives a nice explanation: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=22062211
You can also check Hdsentinel: https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_linux.php It will give you an estimation how much time does it have left.
It's not already dead, if you store non super-important data, and use it in a raid you can use it for some time, but won't be surprised, when you wake up one morning and the "RAID array is degraded" message will greet you.
This sounds like a hardware issue, especially if it can't complete an OS install. Is anything in task manager frequently at 100% when it's slow? I'd start there if so. I haven't used it, but HD Sentinel was recommended to me by a buddy at work for tracking SSD issues over time. I previously used CrystalDiskInfo to get a quick heads up on a failing drive; basically anything other that good means hardware is failing. Lastly, I'd check processor temps and make sure they within operating range. One site in Chrome shouldn't cause the issues you're having, and 8GB of RAM is definitely sufficient for web browsing.
I was suggesting to check hdd with https://www.hdsentinel.com/ or something similar for bad sectors. Also check do those temperatures rise higher than 90c because of cpu thermal throttling.
If you have a thumbdrive and another computer you can download this: https://www.hdsentinel.com/hdsdos/hdsdosi.zip
Run it with your thumbdrive plugged in and it will create a bootable dos drive. You'll need to enable legacy boot/ csm mode in your bios to boot from it if its not already enabled.
You could also create a bootable linux thumbdrive and download the linux version of hdsentinel if you don't want to mess with bios settings. Linux also has gsmartctl built in you can use, but hdsentinel has the the most easily understandable output of any program that shows S.M.A.R.T. data. It gives you a health percentage, and an explanation of how it calculated that percentage. Like bad or weak sectors, spin up retries, communication errors, etc...
You could try running chkdsk from you command prompt and see if it fixes any files system issues, but sometimes if the drive is failing it will nuke a lot of your files and put corrupted bits of them in a found folder on the c: drive.
If you run hdsentinel and see bad or weak sectors, the best option would try to rescue/clone the drive to another drive with ddrescue in linux. Sometimes ddrescue will recover enough of the old drive that the cloned copy will boot, and if not sometimes running chkdsk on the clone will fix it. I've saved a lot of drives this way, but its not 100% successful. Depends on how bad the corruption is.
But, if you don't have any files you can't live without on the drive, you could just try chkdsk /b in command prompt and see if it fixes anything. If it does, but still won't boot, try the previous posts commands again after running chkdsk.
Sorry to hear that!
In my case I found the culprit was a faulty HDD and later a faulty SATA cable (bogged down the system despite replacing the HDD with SSD).
Can you check if your storage media's health is okay? I use this for checking.
Also, how much RAM you got? I increased the RAM by 50% and all 100% Disk Usage issues disappeared overnight.
RAID 0 is living on the edge, there is no redundancy. But as far as to tell if they're dying, you can install a program like HD Sentinel. https://www.hdsentinel.com/
It helps to diagnose if a drive is failing.
Try running checkdisk and see if your SSD has any bad cells. Or HDSentinel for a more extensive test.
I would also run memtest86 to see if there are any issues with the RAM modules. Defective RAM modules can throw errors into every process and make it look like other things are breaking.
Just saw your picture of the drive.
That is a 2 heads model drive. "Hard Disk Sentinel - Technical details for disk SAMSUNG HN-M320MBB" https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=SAMSUNG%20HN-M320MBB
So, 50% of the drive being cloned indicates that one head is not reading, which is very common on this drive model. Since this drive model has very large zones per head, it is the reason why the clone has technically been so successful so far.
As mentioned earlier, we can easily confirm with a picture of the legend of the cloning pattern using HDDSCViewer.
Either way, this family of drives isn't known for a whole lot of weird quirks, so there isn't likely another reading issue other than a bad head. Why?
Because the drive knows how to work properly with one head, which means the translation is done correctly. So, the drive would not discriminate for some strange reason and not read the other surface (head). It is a head issue primarily. There may be other minor firmware issues that could be addressed to help improve the stability of the drive, but it is not possible to do this without advanced tools.
So, your drive needs a head stack replacement cleanroom environment, which obviously is not Do-It-Yourself. Also, since it is an older model, for you, it may be tricky to find compatible parts.
Sorry.
if it survives 30 min you should download burnin from passmark to stress the rest of your components individually and then all at the same time.
https://www.passmark.com/products/burnintest/index.php
also you should get hd sentinel and see wether your hard drives health is still fine, as it can cause blue screens.
after that you could make a usb stick bootable with memtest to do an advanced scan of your memory. passmark burnin can give you a good indication but memtest is more extensive way of testing.
Oh, never seen such a behavior on an SSD. Can't you see which processes are accessing the disk in the Disk Tab of the Resource Monitor (button on the Performance tab in your Task Manager) and report back?
Also, are you playing games on the SSD and reaching its end of life? Please download the HDSentinel trial ASAP and see what it has to say about the SSD's health.
There is probably a firmware update for the SSD, which is risky business to perform. I am assuming that you have latest mobo BIOS installed.
Best troubleshooting option is to separate variables. Buy a new small 128G/256G cheap SSD from a reliable brand like Samsung, Kingston or WD, install Windows and see if you get the same problem - if it does, it may be even a mobo's SATA controller hardware problem.
I'm not sure, since I'm not familiar with those terms. Googling my model threw this
https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=HITACHI%20HTS545050A7E680
I suppose it's HDD, since it is entry-level notebook. Nonetheless, almost 2 mins boot seems too much even for my potato laptop...Windows managed no more than 20 seconds max (eww)
https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=MAXTOR%2090648D3
Listed as a PATA drive. IDE and PATA are basically the same thing. SATA is much newer and as stated looks very different.
If you've got any other computer you can plug it into you can install hard drive sentinel. https://www.hdsentinel.com/
It's free you just need to wait a few seconds to close the "register now" box, kinda like winrar.
It can tell you a few things about a drive, it can diagnose basic problems and also estimate the remaining lifespan of an SSD.
I don't work for them or anything I just had a dying drive about 6 months ago and used it.
That isn't a SSD, it's pretty old HDD that seems to be failing. Or at least usually "Current Pending Sector Count" being anything else than 0 is indicator of problems. You can try to use it, but don't store anything you'll miss on it...
But you should consider just getting a new one.
If rescanning doesn’t work download this
https://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php
See if it shows up in that program. If it doesn’t, or if the program freezes your hard drive is likely dead/bad.
You can also try running
Sfc /scannow
And
dism.exe /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
It can pull drive stats through a raid controller as well. I use it for all windows servers. It has alerted me of future failures way before the controller ever has.
Hi, it might sound stupid but did you actually booting the media creation tool USB by pressing F12 at bootup and select the USB device from option? It seems in the video you posted it’s not showing the boot menu where to choose the bootable device… My best bet is that there is something wrong with your hard drive, if you have a laptop/PC from a friend or family try to download and make a bootable USB flash version of Hard Disk Sentinel https://www.hdsentinel.com/usbboot.php boot your PC with the USB… for Lenovo pressing the F12 brings the boot section, you might have to mess with the BIOS option to enable legacy mode as Hard Disk Sentinel doesn’t boot in UEFI mode. See what’s the health of your hard drive if it’s not at 100% you might have bad sector at the beginning of the boot sector of your hard drive which is preventing your operating system to load at startup.
The case gets thicker. HDSentinel is saying that both Performance and Health are at 100%. It has, however, laid down this message: "Problems occurred between the communication of the disk and the host 61 times. In case of sudden system crash, reboot, blue-screen-of-death, inaccessible file(s)/folder(s), it is recommended to verify data and power cables, connections - and if possible try different cables to prevent further problems. More information: https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_case_communication_error.php"
Is that the writing on the wall?
Depends on what do you use it for. As I know Crystal is a simple test program, while the Sentinel is a full featured disk monitoring, testing, reporting solution. So for advanced usage, the Sentinel is much better.
Have a look at the features.
Gotcha. Yeah, looking up the test it doesn't actually "fix" the bad sectors, it makes sure they are swapped with each bad sector's shadow sectors (what it calls "spare area"). The bad sectors are still on the HDD, and will still likely multiply over time. Sometimes this sort of "repair" will last months or even a year, sometimes it will start rapidly degrading within a week. It depends on the type of physical damage that caused it in the first place. Any bad sectors indicates the HDD is reaching old age and will more likely start seriously degrading within a year or less. I wouldn't use it to store any critical data, and make sure you have frequent backups.
Source for test info: https://www.hdsentinel.com/help/en/61_surfacetest.html
On Windows I usually run 2 or 3 of the following tests:
- HD Sentinel: WRITE+read test with random data
- H2testw
- SMART: Extended self test (can be started from HD Sentinel)
There are no magic steps to "break in" new drives. The goal is to make sure they are survived the shipping and there are no physical damages on the platters. For this you have to WRITE the disk full with data, then READ it back to verify. Finally, check there are no errors in the SMART data.
Because of the today's technology tricks, it is advised to use uncompressable data for testing (or at least pseudorandom), because otherwise the disk controller can "cheat". For example it does not physically write 100GBs of 0-s, just puts a marker saying "from here to here all bits are 0". However these tricks are mostly used in SSD-s, but who knows nowadays... Our goal is to test all writeable surface.
People usually don't test new drives because they are... new, so why? It is the same mentality for not having backup, because... they have raid/brand drive/cloud/etc.
Fortunately this mentality only lasts until they lose valuable data :) (yes, I was one of them)
I'm following the HD Sentinel guide on 'repairing' drives. The software's author seems to have very different views on hard drive errors compared to everyone on here (the article if you want to read it: https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_case_weak_sectors.php)!
Yeah, you may have a failing drive. If it has bad or relocated sectors it can cause skipping/stuttering like that. Run the freeware version of https://www.hdsentinel.com/ and let it check the health of the drive. Should give you an easy readout to if your drives health is bad/going to fail. Even if it isnt going to fail soon, if youre getting skipping and theres badsectors that can be the cause.
Yes, if the hard drive is problematic, these errors are also common. I suggest this software to check the health of the HDD: https://www.hdsentinel.com/
And yes, it's better to use 1909 ISO, you can find it here: https://tb.rg-adguard.net/public.php
Also important to know is if those counters are incrementing. You can keep an eye on it in Crystal Disk Mark or, when I'm feeling lazy, I let the free version of Hard Disk Sentinel run in the background. It has pretty graphs that removes all requirements for thinking, which I appreciate.
Hard Disk Sentinel Pro → Surface Test → Read Test or Write + Read Test.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/help/en/61_surfacetest.html
Check the slower sectors, anything below 12-20 MB/s is considered a weak sector.
Ah, you're right - I didn't really look closely enough at the image.
Mildly surprised it's the 2.5" version though.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=HITACHI%20HTS543232A7A384
I run a soak test with Stressdisk for ~72 hours to get a full write and read/compare cycle on it. Then do a surface scan with something like Hard Disk Sentinel to make sure all is still well.
stressdisk -duration 72h run X:
X is the drive letter of the WD Elements
After stressdisk completes:
stressdisk clean X:
- You don't really have to worry as of right now. Currently everything 8TB+ from WD is fine.
- Run a soak test with Stressdisk for ~72 hours to get a full write and read/compare cycle on it. Then do a surface scan with something like Hard Disk Sentinel to make sure all is still well. Lay it on it's side while doing this and blow a fan through the top or bottom of the vent holes. Any fan will do, desk fan, case fan, whatever. Just need a little circulation. These drives get toasty in their enclosure under load.
stressdisk -duration 72h run X:
X is the drive letter of the WD Elements
After stressdisk completes:
stressdisk clean X: - Pretty much as long as it's thin and non-conductive, it should be fine. I've used brother label printer material for PCIe cards with no problems. Might be too thick for a drive though. You can use nail polish as well, but that's more permanent and could make warranty difficult.
That really does sound like it's on the way out or has completely failed already. You can check it's health with HDD Sentinel when you connect it to PC.
If it's gone, you can replace it with a different one, many guides on how to do that are available.
Check hard drive health since you have already formatted and re-installed. Might be your computer trying to read a bad sector or hitting a bad sector on the hard drive. Download a trial of Hard Drive Sentinel it will scan for bad sectors and give you a hard drive health grade and also give you the hard drive's S.M.A.R.T. info.
How long has that drive been in use? I would check the health just to make sure there isn't something funky going on with the operating system etc.
Big fan of HDD Sentinel https://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php
> However this did not work out .It prompts imminent failure #05 > > If I put it back into the laptop it is booting.So I know that the hard drive is not the issue here.
It suggests a failing drive (here is the Google Search query for "imminent failure #05"), with reallocated sectors (see SMART attribute 5 here). This is in no way not an HDD issue; the drive may fail altogether anytime.
Back up all important data and discard the drive. You can also use secure data erasure utilities like DBAN to remove any sensitive data off it.
How old is laptop? Back up all your data now if you haven't lately as a HD failure might be imminent.
Disable Windows Defender and see if that does anything. That is what Antimalware Services Executable is from. It might just be trying to do a real-time scan all the time, maxing out your HD reads.
Many times, doing a new install of Windows is more efficient than spending 8+ hours trying to find the culprit. Could be a rogue software trying to update in the background or even Windows update trying to check for updates or the hard drive might not be able to keep up with your tasks anymore. You can download HD Sentinel to check the hard drive health and it will also tell you if there are any bad sectors on the drive.
According to the documentation, "Darker green color means that the sectors are slower and harder to process (read or write depending on the test type) but they are still good. Having some (especially random) darker green blocks are completely acceptable unless they form a continuous, larger area (especially with yellow/red blocks near)."
Personally, I would consider the pattern of darker green spots a little concerning. Did you look at the SMART stats?
Are playing on a HDD perhaps? Is so try https://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php (portable/trial) to see if it's dying or if it's something else. It's kinda hard to troubleshot when you're not there in person, especially when it could a virus eating away CPU resources, RAM etc. Or if it's hardware related. Oh and check temps as well via hwinfo/hwmonitor.
would I rather perform the destructive "WRITE + read test (Pro version)" with my copy of HD Sentinel or just run h2testw instead? are they essentially the same test?
Maybe 10–20 percent of hard drives fail in the first 3 years. I now make copies of often-used files and use those to save wear. My diary software likely writes a config file 50 times daily so every 18 days I rename it, copy that file and rename that back to the original name. Make sure no hard drive is relied upon for more than 3-to-5 years.
Ebay is a good place to get cheap new hard drives.
https://www.hdsentinel.com software to check your SSD & hard drive before they fail (for Linux too)
How much data do you have and how much is written yearly? Do you have an SSD?
It's Hard Disk Sentinel to be precise, but yeah. All of the above, plus it is relatively cheap, lifetime license, no shitty subscriptions.
And do not forget that the best way to protect against data loss is to have backup (an untested backup is not a backup).
"And if they start to fail, then what's the best way to get the data off of them" -> It is already too late then :)
Just a friendly FYI, you may not want to link directly to some unknown, possibly virus-ridden zip file. Link its homepage/download page and let users check it out for themselves. This also ensures users get the latest version instead of something older when they stumble upon the link a few years down the road.
AFAIK SpinRite has nothing to do on filesystem level. It just rewrites sectors on disk level and the drive automatically remaps bad sectors to spare space during that.
Hard Disk Sentinel can do the same and it runs on Windows. I really recommend this utility not for just repair, but to constantly watch the drive status and alert on the first sign of failure.
You might take a look at this:
https://www.hdsentinel.com/faq_amd_ahci_compatible_raid_controller.php
I would backup my data first just in case.
Let us know how it goes if you decide to be a Guinea pig. 😳But that's how we all learn. 😁
Big brain think checklist:
- Check for corrupt files.
- Clear files in "Steam\steamapps\common\Black Desert Online\Cache\400"
- Check if your HDD/SSD is dying with say https://www.hdsentinel.com/hard_disk_sentinel_professional.php#portable
Are you sure this isn’t due to bad sectors or something like that? Or perhaps a host protected area on one of the drives? For example, this support question about duplicating disks ended with WD saying to RMA the drive.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=11575
plug your external HDD into your pc and download hard disk sentinel to check the drives health.
As far as black screening goes I ran literally all my games off the internal HDD. I ran into one game the black screened which was Call of duty MW3. I used multiman to convert it into an ISO then loaded it with webman and it loaded right up.
o, you NEED to do this, go and download HD sentinel, ill send you a link, get the FREE version, install it, and run it, then wait about 10 minutes, it will tell you whats wrong with the drive, becasue to me, in my experience, it sounds like there may be some weak, or corrupt sectors on that drive.
It doesnt matter what kind of drive it is, it will read the drrives SMART status.
https://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php
so click on
Hard Disk Sentinel Trial v5.50 (ZIP)
As far as data preservation goes, upgrading/buying a new hard drive after an error is always a safer route. Then I would recommend also having a backup on a second storage device to really ensure you don't lose what's important.
As far as your current hard drive, you can use Hard Disk Sentinel to check the health of your drive (Link)
Boot into your first hard drive, then download a program like HD Sentinel to check the status of the second HDD. It will show you performance/health percentage, estimated lifetime remaining, as well as any SMART errors.
I use Hard Drive Sentinel ( https://www.hdsentinel.com/ ) on Windows 10. It's mainly used for drive monitoring, but also has a test functionality. There might be other software that is free, but I don't know any. And I use this item as the powered SATA to USB adapter.