HDD Suddenly Performs Terribly?

[DavePlays]

Up until this morning, my Seagate Barracuda 2TB drive was working fine. Then suddenly, windows explorer crashes when trying to access files. Any ideas?

 

[access denied]

Did you restart the HDD? Basic question so...... I may sound stupid.

[hconverse02]

check smart status with crystaldiskinfo

[DavePlays]

Yeah. I also changed SATA ports and no effect. And it's not my computer hating drives because my SSD works normally.

[Rohime]

3 minutes ago, DavePlays said:

Yeah. I also changed SATA ports and no effect. And it's not my computer hating drives because my SSD works normally.

What does the SMART data say? Any hints there?

[DavePlays]

I just tried changing the power connector. Seems to have fixed it for now.

[TophatFire]

I'd tend to think it means the HDD is on its way out the door.  Make sure anything critical is backed up, then you could try CHKDSK and defrag.

 

 

[DavePlays]

I have a 4TB external drive coming on Friday. Hopefully it will last.

[ATFink]

Did you check the S.M.A.R.T. status? If not, you should do that.

[DavePlays]

Here's the SMART data.

[Eniqmatic]

27 minutes ago, DavePlays said:

Here's the SMART data.

You need to post more of the attributes for it to be of more use, but as you can see there are quite a few reallocated sectors. Not the highest I've seen however and at least they have actually been successfully re-allocated.

 

Post the attributes further down also.