Hard Drive Issues

[bman7842]

I recently just upgraded all my components except my graphics card and hard drive. The previous componentes connected to the hard drive had no issues but just were older and slow. I went from an old amd athlon 64 x2 6000+ to an intel core i5 6600. The build went pretty good however I started to noticed weird lag where the entire computer would freeze up whenever a hard drive related thing was happening. It would go off and on but when it froze everything on windows was interactable but when you clicked on things that had to load something from the hard drive they would stop responding until I heard the wir of the hard drive kick back in and then everything would go back to normal.

 

I went to test this problem by copying a large file to a different folder and recorded it (couldn't use screen recorder in this case).

As you can see watching it (ignore windows 10 ISO download) the file transfer works fine for a bit then all of a sudden task manager drops down to 0.2mb/s and says the Hard drive is maxed out at 100% even though a few seconds ago it was going at 16mb/s. The file transfer also stops along with Windows 10 download progress. Then starts again, doing this again and again.

 

When playing a game like CS:GO the game runs smoothly until I either die or open the menu then it does that annoying sound loop freeze things for around a minute.

 

This is my hard drive, like I said it was from my old build. I'm planning on getting an SSD later but just don't have the money right now.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073

 

Really concerned and curious about this issue so any help would be great. Thanks

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

Got a smart test result for that drive?

[bman7842]

5 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

Got a smart test result for that drive?

What's that/how do I do it?

[Biggerboot]

2 hours ago, bman7842 said:

What's that/how do I do it?

Download CDI and it'll tell you your drive's health.

[bman7842]

30 minutes ago, Biggerboot said:

Download CDI and it'll tell you your drive's health.

I can't get into the computer, the windows file is corrupted

[Biggerboot]

4 minutes ago, bman7842 said:

I can't get into the computer, the windows file is corrupted

You can run chkdsk through your installation media or try to boot in safe mode.  You'll probably need to attempt a repair and just hope it's software related.

[bman7842]

Issue was a faulty hard drive, purchased an SSD an all issues were solved. thanks for the advice!