Hard drive *seems* ok, but transfers fall to 0.0kb/s, computer locks up

[jb7]

Hi,

When transferring data to a particular hard drive, the transfers fall to 0.0kb/s ("transfer A")

Moreover, if I am also doing transfers to other hard drives at the same time, they also go down to 0.0kb/s (transfer b). Similarly my web browser won't load anything any more, the computer completely locks up

If I cancel the original transfer (transfer A), everything is fine again.

If I do something like changing the drive letter on this hard drive, it takes forever to change, so there is definitely something up with this drive.

However, I have run smart scan on crystaldiskinfo/hdtune, and they don't report any errors

Any idea how I can diagnose and maybe fix the issue with this disk? If it was dying I would have thought that the above would have revealed something

Note that this is a storage drive, my OS drive is an SSD. Windows 10.

Thanks

 

[lude1962]

event viewer -> system, any disk related errors?

 

[jb7]

event viewer -> system, any disk related errors?

I have been running a HDtune deep error scan for the past 4.5 hours

Damaged blocks 3.0%, it has found 76 errors. For example, "Error at 1256812 MB (LBA 2573..."

Checking event viewer, it shows loads of errors, source = disk. They all seem to say 'the disk has a bad block'

Is the hard drive dead? Any way it can be resuscitated? (all the data on there is backed up)

Thanks

 

[bledd]

Throw it away, buy a new drive and restore the data from your backup.



Faulty hard drives really hamper system performance.

 

[jb7]

So I've placed it inside an external enclosure and connected it to my macbook pro. Formatted as Mac OS Journaled

It was copying over fine at first but again has grinded to a halt. Time to replace this HDD