2 ext HDD issues

[lkshis]

Hiya

 

1. My Seagate Backup HDD is either not detected or takes a long time to be detected (literally hours). Does anyone know why this happens, other than the drive is dying? On the occasion I was able to run chkdsk on it, no errors were found. I have tried to plug the drive into another machine, same result.

 

2. When I boot up my machine, my WD My Passport HDD will run slowly, as if there were a read lag. If I eject and plug it back, it will run fine. What may be the issue? Drive works well otherwise.

 

TIA!

[Mnky313]

15 minutes ago, lkshis said:

1. My Seagate Backup HDD is either not detected or takes a long time to be detected (literally hours). Does anyone know why this happens, other than the drive is dying? On the occasion I was able to run chkdsk on it, no errors were found. I have tried to plug the drive into another machine, same result.

I would try taking the drive out of the plastic enclosure and plugging into a PC as if it was an internal drive, if it still has issues showing up the drive is probably dying.
 

 

16 minutes ago, lkshis said:

2. When I boot up my machine, my WD My Passport HDD will run slowly, as if there were a read lag. If I eject and plug it back, it will run fine. What may be the issue? Drive works well otherwise.

This could be a driver thing, try different USB ports or going into device manager and selecting 'Uninstall Device' and unplugging it/plugging back in to reinstall the driver.

[Jplayz07]

1 hour ago, Mnky313 said:

I would try taking the drive out of the plastic enclosure and plugging into a PC as if it was an internal drive, if it still has issues showing up the drive is probably dying.
 

 

This could be a driver thing, try different USB ports or going into device manager and selecting 'Uninstall Device' and unplugging it/plugging back in to reinstall the driver.

I agree with all of these.

[seagate_surfer]

Look for an update for that drive here: Seagate Technology - Download Finder

And also make sure you have all run your Windows updates too.

 

[AndyInAtlanta]

Not a Seagate drive, but my last HDD that started to run increasingly slower was on borrowed time.  It took weeks to get all the files onto a healthy drive.  No errors ever showed up on the drive, but I'm confident it was starting to fail.

[seagate_surfer]

2 minutes ago, AndyInAtlanta said:

Not a Seagate drive, but my last HDD that started to run increasingly slower was on borrowed time.  It took weeks to get all the files onto a healthy drive.  No errors ever showed up on the drive, but I'm confident it was starting to fail.

Did you reach any conclusions? Could you find any specific reason why the slowness?

[AndyInAtlanta]

2 minutes ago, seagate_surfer said:

Did you reach any conclusions? Could you find any specific reason why the slowness?

Never did, no.  It was an older drive (probably close to ten years), so I chalked it up to age.  Every file was able to transfer, so nothing was corrupted, but at the end nothing could be directly opened from the drive (for example, a video file wouldn't play).

[seagate_surfer]

7 minutes ago, AndyInAtlanta said:

Never did, no.  It was an older drive (probably close to ten years), so I chalked it up to age.  Every file was able to transfer, so nothing was corrupted, but at the end nothing could be directly opened from the drive (for example, a video file wouldn't play).

WOW! Alright maybe it was just the usage like you said.