Is my HDD borked?

almoststew1990 · 10 Mar 2015 at 17:06

I have a Maxtor 250GB SATA HDD that is a good few years old. The other day I built a random PC out of spare parts:

Windows 7 64bit
ASUS e350m1-i Deluxe (1.6GHz dc super energy saver passive CPU-GPU-MOBO combo thing) oc to 1.7 :eek:

4GB DDR3 @ 1413MHz
512MB Nvidia 9600GT
The HDD

I get hangs around Windows as well as during the first few moments of gaming (each frame lasts maybe 4 seconds, for the initial 30 seconds in-game-engine) before it sorts itself out and settles into 25-30fps. I've been wondering if it is my HDD:

Is any of the above going to cause the problems in an otherwise stable system?

wazza300 · 10 Mar 2015 at 17:10

airflow temperature

is it hot to touch the hdd? could be the cause of errors? idk have you run chkdisc on it,right click the drive/tools

could also be software bug

McGraw · 10 Mar 2015 at 17:20

I ran my Pentium 200 on a 20gb hard drive that was riddled with bad sectors.

It was fine though, didn't get any windows hangs.

Just don't put anything important on it.

The initial low performance in games could just be because the system itself isn't exactly cutting edge.

If the games run fine after that initial 30 secs I wouldn't worry about it too much.

As above though, run chkdsk and maybe even do a full reformat and reinstall.

almoststew1990 · 10 Mar 2015 at 17:26

McGraw said:
I ran my Pentium 200 on a 20gb hard drive that was riddled with bad sectors.

It was fine though, didn't get any windows hangs.

Just don't put anything important on it.

The initial low performance in games could just be because the system itself isn't exactly cutting edge.

If the games run fine after that initial 30 secs I wouldn't worry about it too much.

As above though, run chkdsk and maybe even do a full reformat and reinstall.

I ran Chkdsk, nothing. This is just after a full reformat so maybe I'll let it defrag over night and otherwise accept that it is because the CPU is more suited to being a paperweight.