HDD problems

[snadge]

Hi

My uncles HDD is a 1TB Seagate that is about 4-5 years old, it is taking ages to boot up and i cant fathom the problem? it takes well over 2 minutes from button to desktop, mine takes about 30 seconds.

the rest of his set up is old (but still usuable) though: Quad-Core 8200 @ 2.6Ghz / 4Gb 800Mhz DDR2 / Chipset GPU / Gigabyte mobo / Win 10

I have used PERFECTDISK as I find it to have the better placement algorithm, it places boot files contigously at the start of the disk, now i have ran a few passes, consolidate free space, defrag then optimize in order just for good measure and its still the same.

the only other thing of note is it will NOT perform a boot time defrag for some reason, i set it in PD but nthing happens upon reboot, and im wondering if some of the boot files in use are in the page-file which might be heavily fragmented...i dunno... the size of the page file is fine (Managed by system) changed that to 6Gb but still same results.

I used a SMART reader which respots health generally OK but has some concerning high numbers in certain readings

DESCRITPION - RAW VALUE

CRC Error Count - 1812
Seek Error Rate - 356377508
Command Timeout - 38655295514
Raw Read Error Rate 113624787
Hardware ECC Recovered - 113624787
Head Flying Hours - 204096845925773
High Fly Writes - 2
Reported Uncorrectable Errors - 5

no reallocated sectors....

could anyone offer any advice on this please?

thanks

 

[snadge]

His motherboard is old it doesnt have UEFI, its a Legacy system.

yeah I should have taken screenshots. I will do next time im there, just chugs away for ages as windows loads

its a fairly old build I done around 2007, so the system is 10 years old, since its build its had a new HDD, PSU, DVD-drive, GPU REMOVED - FAULTY, upgraded from Windows 7 to 10 and recently upgraded the Intel dual-core 90nm to Intel quad-core 45nm and 2GB DDR2 to 4GB DDR2

the only things running at boot is Bitdefender free, Process Lasso and Ccleaner, shame cos I reckon if he put a new hard-drive (preferably SSD) it would be quite zippy, he really needs a GPU too as the Analogue he's using is picking up interference and messing with the quality of the screen.

Yeah SMART reported overall the drive as OK... next time I may run SPEEDFAN as ive just remembered it has a drive SMART check option that takes you to a website and gives you a breakdown of the SMART results, its pretty good actually

edit: I have a 9yr old 500GB that was a desktop Seagate unit dismantled after heavy use and put inside my PC, it has zero value figure than the ones such as CRC & Reported UnCorrectable Errors

Might try Spinrite on it too...

thx