Disk I/O error , when copying to a hdd

PeterK · July 21, 2015

*Note : no blue screen , or windows explorer , aswell as general system lag and instability can Not be directly associated with this topic .

After i started hearing the hdd in question , i removed it from boot drive function , and for 3-4 years it's been working good .(it's a Samsung 1tb hdd with 15000work hours shown in crystal disk)

As the hdd was not accessed frequently it maintained (more or less) it's condition .

A few monts ago i started to see some minor lags , temporary freezes (3-15 sec in thispc/devices&drives) , the hdd started to spin up and/or turn on slowly , still not huge problem , if it stayed the same i would barely notice . It got worse . A few weeks ago i started having BSOD a couple times , most of the couple time it happened after i woke up my pc hibernation . I had no idea it was the hdd , tough i heard the struggling when it started spinning .

Then it got even worse . I wanted to copy some pictures to the hdd (100 pic / 250mb) , 30 of them succeded , then i got some I/O error message ....I choose another usb port for the camera , still error , i put the sd card in a card reader in a third usb port still error. Then i tryed to copy from another hdd in pc to this one still error.... , then i tryed to copy the pics from camera to the other hdd , Success! . Only now i realised that this hdd was causing the random bugs/freezes .

I was fortunate enough to be able to copy the contents of the faulty drive to the other one , we are talking about ~75gb of important pictures and 450gb of other things (such as movies and games and music).

it's worth mentioning that i had 3 partitions on the drive 100/131/700gb , after the backup , i formatted the drive as 1 simple volume of 1tb(931gb) , but i did not try to move any data to it.

The next day aka today i removed the hdd , and for my surprise i saw decreased boot time , aswell as decreased MyComputer access times . So far also no glitches/lags .

The conclusion is sad , howewer when you start having problems out of the blue aswell as receiving the windows I/O ERROR message don't hesitate to back up everything , and if the drive won't let you than bring it to a specialist .