Weird problem with new HD

[Mahde232]

Hi guys, I searched all over google but didn't find an answer / fix to my problem, So I thought why not post it here.

 

A few months ago (2-3) I bought a new 1TB WD HD as a secondary storage to my system, I use an SSD as the main boot drive.

For the first month or two It worked perfectly, I had it partitioned into 2, One for Games and programs, and another as an archive.

The second partition still works till this day, Although, The first one is causing weird problems, First of all, It had approx 100GB of programs such as games, movies, programs such as sony vegas and so on. It all started when I tried to open a certain program / video file and the drive completely hanged / froze, It didnt open the file, It was stuck on some sort of loading cycle, It lagged my windows explorer, and other programs such as google chrome / skype / pretty much everything (those programs were installed on the boot drive thus i was able to open them beforehand), I thought a small format would fix it, so I formatted that specific partition.

After the format I tried to install the old programs again, only to find that the installers would be stuck on the first few files of the installation (It's like its not copying anything at all), the installer would freeze the same way windows explorer would before the format, other programs are still responsive though.

Another method i tried was copying a video file to that partition, and try to play / open it, It does open SOMETIMES, sometimes it doesnt (my video player is VLC, it would open VLC but the file itself wont play)...

I really dont know any troubleshooting methods that could help me know what is wrong exactly, and would like some help.

For the record, I did try hardformating it (ZERO-format) and the problems still occured.

 

Thanks for your time reading the thread.

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, Mahde232 said:

had it partitioned into 2, One for Games and programs, and another as an archive.

No reason to partition it, leave it as one big partition and use folders.

 

 

You have a bad hdd, check smart data or run hdtune/badbocks to check for errors.

 

[Mahde232]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

No reason to partition it, leave it as one big partition and use folders.

 

 

You have a bad hdd, check smart data or run hdtune/badbocks to check for errors.

 

2 questions my friend, @Electronics Wizardy

 

1)If I still have this problem, Would repartitioning my current harddrive into 1 single partition make it hang like it does with the first partition I currently have? if so i would prefer keeping it like this and use the second partition alone (500gb are enough for my current uses tbh)

 

2)How come my HDD is bad when 1 partition is perfectly working?

[Princess Luna]

6 minutes ago, Mahde232 said:

2 questions my friend, @Electronics Wizardy

 

1)If I still have this problem, Would repartitioning my current harddrive into 1 single partition make it hang like it does with the first partition I currently have? if so i would prefer keeping it like this and use the second partition alone (500gb are enough for my current uses tbh)

 

2)How come my HDD is bad when 1 partition is perfectly working?

The physical part responsible for the partition might be damaged somehow, it isn't impossible to happen, also there really isn't much point in partitioning the storage HDD, I also have a SSD for boot and HDD for storage, I just made a "Programs File" folder on the HDD and install everything there, games and applications.

[Electronics Wizardy]

17 minutes ago, Mahde232 said:

2 questions my friend, @Electronics Wizardy

 

1)If I still have this problem, Would repartitioning my current harddrive into 1 single partition make it hang like it does with the first partition I currently have? if so i would prefer keeping it like this and use the second partition alone (500gb are enough for my current uses tbh)

 

2)How come my HDD is bad when 1 partition is perfectly working?

1. No it won't, you have a physically bad chunk on that drive. It happens to be on your first partition. 

 

2. Hdd's normally only fail in one spot.

[Mahde232]

@Electronics Wizardy @Princess Cadence 

Even the checking process itself is stuck at the beginning, for hours it didn't even move (look at elapsed time).

[Electronics Wizardy]

44 minutes ago, Mahde232 said:

@Electronics Wizardy @Princess Cadence 

Even the checking process itself is stuck at the beginning, for hours it didn't even move (look at elapsed time).

You got a dead hdd then. If the hdd has a bad block it will try to read it and be very slow doing this. 

[Mahde232]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

You got a dead hdd then. If the hdd has a bad block it will try to read it and be very slow doing this. 

Gotcha, Thanks alot buddy, I will try to get a new one through warranty.