[CharlotteTheHarlot]

Woomera, on 18 August 2012 - 01:46 AM, said:

i could not find any official Toshiba diag tool that supports SATA drives.

I believe there are, and SATA is definitely included if the Toshiba site is accurate ...

Toshiba - Hard Drives - Software Utilities

The 1st one is Windows ready.

The 2nd one listed there is a DOS diagnostic so it requires you to create a DOS boot disk and they do not seem to have a pre-configured ISO to burn (which sucks because it is the only way to eliminate Windows as a variable).

The 3rd is SCSI so just ignore.

Read through this thread at SevenForums for some ideas. One person recommends using the Hitachi Drive Fitness Tool.

I'll look around later and see if someone made a custom ISO for a bootable disc later. This thread has reminded me to update my own boot CD's with more current diags since all the HDD company consolidation (thanks a lot ! more stuff to do ).

EDIT: Here is the direct download for the Hitachi DFT v4.16 (Drive Fitness Tool ) in an ISO for a bootable CD to test this disk drive ...

https://www1.hgst.co...32_v416_b00.iso

This post has been edited by CharlotteTheHarlot: 18 August 2012 - 10:08 PM

[Woomera]

ok here is the new ETL:
https://dl.dropbox.c...erfSlowIOcir.7z

[Woomera]

ok guys, so yesterday i was really frustrated and went my guts and bought a new HDD and inserted, formatted and installed a fresh windows and then all my drivers. and guess what, the prblem is gone and my computer feels 20X faster.

what still bothers me though and from the numbers and tests i couldnt pinpoint the exact issue for sure.

anyway thank you all for your help and input's. really appreciate it.

Regards

[MagicAndre1981]

ok, nice to hear that a new drive fixed it.

[TheWalrus]

Woomera, on 19 August 2012 - 05:54 AM, said:

ok guys, so yesterday i was really frustrated and went my guts and bought a new HDD and inserted, formatted and installed a fresh windows and then all my drivers. and guess what, the prblem is gone and my computer feels 20X faster.

what still bothers me though and from the numbers and tests i couldnt pinpoint the exact issue for sure.

anyway thank you all for your help and input's. really appreciate it.

Regards

I was fairly sure the disk was root of the problem because I saw similar symptoms tens of times in past: weird system "lags" and temporary freezes, unresponsive programs without any obvious reason, constant hdd activity. That's what bad or reallocated sectors do. Usually just one is enough to RMA a disk, btw (or I am lucky to buy from really got stores).

[CharlotteTheHarlot]

Woomera, on 19 August 2012 - 05:54 AM, said:

ok guys, so yesterday i was really frustrated and went my guts and bought a new HDD and inserted, formatted and installed a fresh windows and then all my drivers. and guess what, the prblem is gone and my computer feels 20X faster.

what still bothers me though and from the numbers and tests i couldnt pinpoint the exact issue for sure.

anyway thank you all for your help and input's. really appreciate it.

Regards

You can always put the disk back in and run the bootable CD diags (link is in my previous post) and/or continue pursuing the Windows misconfiguration.

Alternatively if you have the means, using an adapter (2.5" to SATA) you can connect that disk to another computer as an auxillary drive and run a full battery of tests (bootable CD HDD diags or Windows based utilities).

You shouldn't be bothered by not determining the root cause because when you did the full install of Windows to a new HDD you effectively performed two solutions at once, consequently neither the hardware (failing HDD) or software (OS or other) can be pinpointed.