Hard drive problem need help please any one

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well im new to this forum and i just needed to ask some questions
my 2nd hard drive has been acting up and its just a storeg for my music and its been acting laggy and slowin my system down and some time frezzez my pc please help need to know if i need to buy a new one
 
We need to know your system configuration, hard drive brands and models, and what you mean by "acting up." What is installed on the two drives?
The freeze could be anything, but hard drive is a good guess, if it is more than three years old, or a Quantum or a Maxtor, or a DiamondMax, or a Hitachi, or a Fujitsu, or a silver 80 GB Western Digital.
 
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i dont know if its over heating or if its just messing up i try playin a song and just frezzez or takes to long or just frezzez up my pc hel please
 
So if you copy that song (or a few music clips) over to your C drive, and play from there, all is OK. ?

Also you can run a CheckDisk

Manual steps to run Chkdsk from My Computer or Windows Explorer
1. Double-click My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk that you want to check.
2. Click Properties, and then click Tools.
3. Under Error-checking, click Check Now. A dialog box that shows the Check disk options is displayed,
4. Use one of the following procedures: • To run Chkdsk in read-only mode, click Start.
• To repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, select the Automatically fix file system errors check box, and then click Start.
• To repair errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box, and then click Start.
Note If one or more of the files on the hard disk are open, you will receive the following message:
The disk check could not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to some Windows files on the disk. These files can be accessed by restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule the disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer?
Click Yes to schedule the disk check, and then restart your computer to start the disk check.

It's also a good idea to defrag the drive, but defrag itself can put great strain on a drive. Therefore if you believe the drive may fail, it may be wise to backup (to another drive ie C, or to DVD)
 
Hi SNGX1275 Congratulations on hitting 7000 Posts :grinthumb

Thank-you for that list of Drive diagnostic disks too.

Just a question for you, I have noticed that there are a lot of useful old posts, actually especially from you.
Instead of searching TechSpot every time for a good old post, can you possible put a big list together, and then post it ?
Ideally in Number # sequence, ie:
#1 Drive Diagnostics https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic7602.html
#2 Network Diagnostics https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic????.html
This would really help me and others, by saying, "go to this link - and look at #1"
Although this is just a matter of using the search feature, the only issue is that you need to know what you are searching for, and usually these searches give many responses (too many)

Anyway, just a thought.

Congratulations again, on hitting the big 7 O (Gramps!)
 
Thanks for the congrads. I've broke 7000 twice now, just didn't have a thread like some people like to do.

As to your suggestion. Its not a bad one, but most of the important threads are already stuck at the top of the forums they are relavant to. Although I don't think anyone would stop you if you wanted to create a thread like that to link to.
 
Yes I read that a while ago, when the saga was going on
Ok twice!, probably closer to 8000 then

Now, do you really want me to go through all the guides and 572000 posts.
I really prefer you do it, please. I bet you have those links yourself somewhere already.

Anyway, I will stop nagging on Teknikz6 post.
 
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