Recently I've noticed startup times and program loading times becoming very sluggish.
My HDD (500GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKS) has also started making slight clicking noises on spin-up and the indicator LED is lit even when there seems to be no reason for the drive to be under load.
I've tried all the software-based solutions I can think of - Defrag, Disc cleanup etc. - to no avail.
WD's S.M.A.R.T tool passed the HDD, but gave no additional information.
Speccy's S.M.A.R.T tool shows the following readings, but I have next to no idea what they mean.
01 Read Error Rate 200 (200 worst) Data 0000000000
03 Spin-Up Time 142 (141) Data 0000000F2B
04 Start/Stop Count 100 (100) Data 00000002A7
05 Reallocated Sectors Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
07 Seek Error Rate 100 (253) Data 0000000000
09 Power-On Hours (POH) 093 (093) Data 0000001588
0A Spin Retry Count 100 (100) Data 0000000000
0B Recalibration Retries 100 (100) Data 0000000000
0C Device Power Cycle Count 100 (100) Data 0000000296
C0 Power-off Retract Count 200 (200) Data 000000003C
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 200 (200) Data 000000026A
C2 Temperature 115 (107) Data 000000001C
C4 Reallocation Event Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
C7 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
C8 Write Error Rate / Multi-Zone Error Rate 200 (200) Data 0000000000
I keep the drive as tidy as I possibly can, but I do a lot of work on my PC - so I typically have 150GB free of the 500GB capacity.
I thought that the drive might have suffered some kind of physical damage as, while never knocked about, the PC is moved around quite often.
Any advice on how to get my PC performing to its former standard again?
Additional info:
Windows 7 64-bit OEM
Asus P8P67-MPRO
Intel Core-i5 2500k (stable overclock @4.5GHz)
4GB Corsair XMS3 Classic DDR3 RAM
Palit GTX460 SE
650W Coolermaster GX PSU
My HDD (500GB Western Digital WDC WD5000AAKS) has also started making slight clicking noises on spin-up and the indicator LED is lit even when there seems to be no reason for the drive to be under load.
I've tried all the software-based solutions I can think of - Defrag, Disc cleanup etc. - to no avail.
WD's S.M.A.R.T tool passed the HDD, but gave no additional information.
Speccy's S.M.A.R.T tool shows the following readings, but I have next to no idea what they mean.
01 Read Error Rate 200 (200 worst) Data 0000000000
03 Spin-Up Time 142 (141) Data 0000000F2B
04 Start/Stop Count 100 (100) Data 00000002A7
05 Reallocated Sectors Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
07 Seek Error Rate 100 (253) Data 0000000000
09 Power-On Hours (POH) 093 (093) Data 0000001588
0A Spin Retry Count 100 (100) Data 0000000000
0B Recalibration Retries 100 (100) Data 0000000000
0C Device Power Cycle Count 100 (100) Data 0000000296
C0 Power-off Retract Count 200 (200) Data 000000003C
C1 Load/Unload Cycle Count 200 (200) Data 000000026A
C2 Temperature 115 (107) Data 000000001C
C4 Reallocation Event Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
C5 Current Pending Sector Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
C6 Uncorrectable Sector Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
C7 UltraDMA CRC Error Count 200 (200) Data 0000000000
C8 Write Error Rate / Multi-Zone Error Rate 200 (200) Data 0000000000
I keep the drive as tidy as I possibly can, but I do a lot of work on my PC - so I typically have 150GB free of the 500GB capacity.
I thought that the drive might have suffered some kind of physical damage as, while never knocked about, the PC is moved around quite often.
Any advice on how to get my PC performing to its former standard again?
Additional info:
Windows 7 64-bit OEM
Asus P8P67-MPRO
Intel Core-i5 2500k (stable overclock @4.5GHz)
4GB Corsair XMS3 Classic DDR3 RAM
Palit GTX460 SE
650W Coolermaster GX PSU