[donkru]

I have a 500gb WD drive and it is so slow. Sometimes i get like 500k transfer rate. I reformatted and it didnt really help much. I did some HD tune runs on my 3 drives in my system i posted the results.

64gb Corsair NOVA SSD on SATA3


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500GB Seagate on SATA3


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500GB WD on SATA2


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Each have an allocation unit size of 4096 and formatted to NTFS.

Any ideas on how i can fix that?

 

[richie_2010]

look a bit screwed, i would just format it again on full not quick and let it set itself using default button. then try benchmarks. is it making weird noises

 

[donkru]

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Originally Posted by richie_2010 look a bit screwed, i would just format it again on full not quick and let it set itself using default button. then try benchmarks. is it making weird noises

No noises. I just got it and it was sitting around unused for like 3 months. It had literally 400gb of 1080p porn. I did a quick format but i guess a more thorough would be good. Also The guy told me it was like 70% fragmented. Im gonna do a full now and then see what i get. Maybe it has bad sectors?

 

[donkru]

Just finished formatting. It is doing the same thing. Maybe the drive is about to die. O well. I wonder what else i can do to try and fix it.

 

[PapaSmurf]

First thing to do is look at the SMART readout of that drive and post it here. You can find that in HDTune's Health tab.

Depending on what that says you might want to try using WDDiagnostics (either the Windows or the self booting version) and do a FULL Zero Fill of the drive (after backing up the data of course). Don't do the short fill as that only writes to part of the drive. You absolutely MUST do the FULL FILL. After than do a LONG Format of the drive. DO NOT QUICK FORMAT IT. You absolutely MUST do a LONG or FULL Format.

After that, run HDTune again and see how it benches and what the SMART says. If anything but the hours goes up the drive is failing.

 

[donkru]

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Originally Posted by PapaSmurf;13054038
First thing to do is look at the SMART readout of that drive and post it here. You can find that in HDTune's Health tab.

Depending on what that says you might want to try using WDDiagnostics (either the Windows or the self booting version) and do a FULL Zero Fill of the drive (after backing up the data of course). Don't do the short fill as that only writes to part of the drive. You absolutely MUST do the FULL FILL. After than do a LONG Format of the drive. DO NOT QUICK FORMAT IT. You absolutely MUST do a LONG or FULL Format.

After that, run HDTune again and see how it benches and what the SMART says. If anything but the hours goes up the drive is failing.

I will do that. I will just leave that running. I hope I can bring this back to life. It would be nice to have some more storage. Thanks for the help. That should take a few hours I will report back

 

[Kick]

sigh. no one mentioned the porn.

you guys are no fun.

anyways, seems like smurf's got the info for you =)
good luck

 

[Amann]

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Originally Posted by Kick;13059279
sigh. no one mentioned the porn.

you guys are no fun.

anyways, seems like smurf's got the info for you =)
good luck

lol ya I got a kick out of that admittance as well... guaranteed thats what is causing the drive to be slow

heheheh

 

[donkru]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kick;13059279
sigh. no one mentioned the porn.

you guys are no fun.

anyways, seems like smurf's got the info for you =)
good luck

LOL. it wasn't my porn. And it was some freaky stuff. I have never seen those things in my life. Some things not even I would be willing to try. How can someone be so flexible.

Anyway. Im gonna sart the fill zero thing now and see what happens.

 

[retrogamer999]

see if you can get the WD tools and do a low level format. quick format just removes file signatures thats why files can be recovered easily using programs like restorer2000. When you go a full format in windows it just... destroys the data.

Keep in mind that data is 0's and 1's. Windows doesnt reset all the 1's to 0's. A low level format will 0 your hard drive.

 

[PapaSmurf]

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Originally Posted by retrogamer999 see if you can get the WD tools and do a low level format. quick format just removes file signatures thats why files can be recovered easily using programs like restorer2000. When you go a full format in windows it just... destroys the data. Keep in mind that data is 0's and 1's. Windows doesnt reset all the 1's to 0's. A low level format will 0 your hard drive.

You can't low level format a modern drive, not even with WD Tools. If one were somehow able to low level format a drive made in the past 10 or so years they would destroy the drive completely, not just the data. And a Long or Full Format does NOT destroy the data to the point that it can't be recovered. It does make it more difficult, but not impossible. Doing a Zero Fill a minimum of 2 or 3 times will pretty much make it unrecoverable though. Please refrain from posting incorrect, misleading, and outright false information like that though. It isn't helpful at all.

He was already informed about using the LONG format instead of the Quick format and also to do a COMPLETE Zero Fill of the drive prior to doing that. In fact, he is in the process of doing just that.

 

[donkru]

Ok. I finished doing the Fill 0 and full format(wow took longer than expected) and the drive is still behaving the same way. I think the drive is bad. I opened up my case to listen and I hear some noises coming from it, What Hard Drives used to sound like back in the day, you know the static sound. Anyway, no worries. It was free and full of porn! Thanks for all the help!

 

[PapaSmurf]

You might want to see if there is any warranty left on it. Go here and input the information to see if there is any. There might not be, but it's worth a shot.