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I have posible proglem with my HDD Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB. I have windows 8.1 pro at the moment instaled on first partition and other staff on second partition. 

Recently my whole sistem is geting slow ... Opera browser, some programs, all seems runing slow ... my sistem is not that low end, but it seems slower as my old one ( AMD Athlon 64X2 5200+ @ 2.7 Ghz and 3 GB DDR2 ram ). Here is results from HDDScan 3.3 and as far as i understand my HDD will fail sooner or later. Or im wrong???

Maybe there is some other tools to check or maibe its mobos fault??? 

 

SMART shows only this: 

199 UltraDMA CRC Errors 200 200 0000000000-0001 000

 

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Do you do OS system maintenance?

 

CCleaner is a good program to speed up the drive.

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Do you do OS system maintenance?

 

CCleaner is a good program to speed up the drive.

windows is intaled just month ago ... so i dont think its spoiled up with some random rubish. And personaly i somwhat dont trust thoes " speed up, cleen up" programs ... 

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windows is intaled just month ago ... so i dont think its spoiled up with some random rubish. And personaly i somwhat dont trust thoes " speed up, cleen up" programs ... 

CCleaner is the best.

it's the real deal.

 

also, you do regular defrags? how old is your drive?

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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CCleaner is the best.

it's the real deal.

 

also, you do regular defrags? how old is your drive?

Jeah, i do, as much as im intaling/uninstalling stuff. drive is some year and a half old, as i remember ... and one more thing - recently its geting somewhat loud, even when sistem is idleing, it makes noise as its reading/writing something intensly ... 

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Jeah, i do, as much as im intaling/uninstalling stuff. drive is some year and a half old, as i remember ... and one more thing - recently its geting somewhat loud, even when sistem is idleing, it makes noise as its reading/writing something intensly ... 

if it's making noise replace it immediately. NOW.

it should last much longer than 1.5yrs, but apparently it hasnt.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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windows is intaled just month ago ... so i dont think its spoiled up with some random rubish. And personaly i somwhat dont trust thoes " speed up, cleen up" programs ... 

Lord Jesus.....You could install windows just last week and due to the type of usage it will get slow or unresponsive very quickly. That is the nature of windows and its users.

 

I am not talking about those speed up programs i am talking about OS system maintenance that you do on your own. CCleaner is the most easy to use and understand, i personally moved on to Winutilities as it give me more control over what i want done. 

 

If you don't want to use the programs i am talking about you can do a disk check within windows itself. Have you tried this?

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Lord Jesus.....You could install windows just last week and due to the type of usage it will get slow or unresponsive very quickly. That is the nature of windows and its users.

 

I am not talking about those speed up programs i am talking about OS system maintenance that you do on your own. CCleaner is the most easy to use and understand, i personally moved on to Winutilities as it give me more control over what i want done. 

 

If you don't want to use the programs i am talking about you can do a disk check within windows itself. Have you tried this?

I didnt mean to offend u by any mean ... i just dont trust them ... but i could give a try ... :) 

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I didnt mean to offend u by any mean ... i just dont trust them ... but i could give a try ... :)

you are not offending me in anyway. I am just giving you some experience with HDDs and this so called HDD dying. I got at least 40 HDD in the past fixing systems for various places and people with their IT PROs saying the HDD is dying and when i take it and do a reformat or a defrag and optimize it works properly again. 

 

My sister can screw up a PC in about a weeks time and i am always the one who gets it back in working condition. Most of the times that noise that people talk about is the seek noise of the HDD which is a normal characteristic of the HDD but if you have your data neatly organized you will get less seeks which in turn causes less seek noise. 

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if it's making noise replace it immediately. NOW.

it should last much longer than 1.5yrs, but apparently it hasnt.

I dont think its that bad, as the sound could come from case ( vibration resonating in case ),but it wasnt like that before ...

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you are not offending me in anyway. I am just giving you some experience with HDDs and this so called HDD dying. I got at least 40 HDD in the past fixing systems for various places and people with their IT PROs saying the HDD is dying and when i take it and do a reformat or a defrag and optimize it works properly again. 

 

My sister can screw up a PC in about a weeks time and i am always the one who gets it back in working condition. Most of the times that noise that people talk about is the seek noise of the HDD which is a normal characteristic of the HDD but if you have your data neatly organized you will get less seeks which in turn causes less seek noise. 

That i can uderstand, but what about thoes things in HDDScan??? as far as i can uderstand there is some sectors what is giving slow read speeds. 

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That i can uderstand, but what about thoes things in HDDScan??? as far as i can uderstand there is some sectors what is giving slow read speeds. 

You have to do a check disk to know if it could be fixed or not

 

You could try this if you have not done so already.

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You have to do a check disk to know if it could be fixed or not

 

You could try this if you have not done so already.

For now im making defrag for my second partition with defragler ... the i will see if that does something good :) 

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For now im making defrag for my second partition with defragler ... the i will see if that does something good :)

B) but if you have a drive with different partitions you will need to defrag all the partitions to make a real difference and defraging is only one third of the fix as if, and this is what we IT guys do which is process of elimination, the drive needs maintenance you must include a registry and junk file clean and a optimization of the data that is in use or need.

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B) but if you have a drive with different partitions you will need to defrag all the partitions to make a real difference and defraging is only one third of the fix as if, and this is what we IT guys do which is process of elimination, the drive needs maintenance you must include a registry and junk file clean and a optimization of the data that is in use or need.

I got the CClean free version yesterday and cleaned registry and other things what it sugested. then i set up defraggler and now its takong care of second partition, what seemd preaty mesy ... and, yes, i will do it for main partition :)

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B) but if you have a drive with different partitions you will need to defrag all the partitions to make a real difference and defraging is only one third of the fix as if, and this is what we IT guys do which is process of elimination, the drive needs maintenance you must include a registry and junk file clean and a optimization of the data that is in use or need.

by the way, again i realized that if u r not doing something for long time, u forget about that option :D 

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I got the CClean free version yesterday and cleaned registry and other things what it sugested. then i set up defraggler and now its takong care of second partition, what seemd preaty mesy ... and, yes, i will do it for main partition :)

B)

 

by the way, again i realized that if u r not doing something for long time, u forget about that option :D

True, it can slip even the best of us.

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B)

 

True, it can slip even the best of us.

I am not IT pro at any mean or by any papers, didnt go to schools or so. But i had a work, was a asistant for and admin, and at that time i learned a lot. now i cant remember even a 1/3 of all that ... like simple things as the color code for internet wire ( making the RJ45 plug i mean)

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I am not IT pro at any mean or by any papers, didnt go to schools or so. But i had a work, was a asistant for and admin, and at that time i learned a lot. now i cant remember even a 1/3 of all that ... like simple things as the color code for internet wire ( making the RJ45 plug i mean)

Neither can i and i was tested on it and got a Anetural :lol: . You can research those things though and i have my notes. In today's time, you don't really need to have a degree to know these things, all you need to do is extensive research, nor does a degree necessarily state you know what you are doing. The number of people that passed Info. Tech and still knew nothing was more than half the class when i did it. Studying for an exam and knowing practical are two different things and many of the things taught in text books are outdated or loop holes have been found and the way to deal with the same issues have changed.   

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Neither can i and i was tested on it and got a Anetural :lol: . You can research those things though and i have my notes. In today's time, you don't really need to have a degree to know these things, all you need to do is extensive research, nor does a degree necessarily state you know what you are doing. The number of people that passed Info. Tech and still knew nothing was more than half the class when i did it. Studying for an exam and knowing practical are two different things and many of the things taught in text books are outdated or loop holes have been found and the way to deal with the same issues have changed.   

Jeah, the practise is what means most to me. I can remeber times when i had an IBM machine ( i cant remeber the model, but it had 95Mhz CPU and 700 MB HDD :D ) and only way to get windows 95 was thrue taking another PC and conecting them thrue printer ports ( if i remember corectly) and then using Norton Comammder, transvering files and so on ... its the practise ... and i seen a lot of guys to have grade in IT but they just dont know how to get things done, if it wasnt in book ... BUT even so, if its not done even weekley basis, u can soon forgot about it ... 

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Neither can i and i was tested on it and got a Anetural :lol: . You can research those things though and i have my notes. In today's time, you don't really need to have a degree to know these things, all you need to do is extensive research, nor does a degree necessarily state you know what you are doing. The number of people that passed Info. Tech and still knew nothing was more than half the class when i did it. Studying for an exam and knowing practical are two different things and many of the things taught in text books are outdated or loop holes have been found and the way to deal with the same issues have changed.   

Tnx man, defraggler runed fine and as far as i can feel sistem is runing faster. Like loading times and all ... And from now i will have some more stuff to do in my ususal PC clean up/optimization run :)

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Tnx man, defraggler runed fine and as far as i can feel sistem is runing faster. Like loading times and all ... And from now i will have some more stuff to do in my ususal PC clean up/optimization run :)

B) what about the noise, did you notice how it reduced as well?

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B) what about the noise, did you notice how it reduced as well?

nothing more than usual seek sound ... atleast it looks like all will be fine  for now. Realy tnx, for info and reminding me that there is loads of things to learn :)

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nothing more than usual seek sound ... atleast it looks like all will be fine  for now. Realy tnx, for info and reminding me that there is loads of things to learn :)

Your welcome and the learning is a never ending cycle.

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