Computer issues...any input?

[deephouse]

It sounds like you have a HDD problem. Is it still under warranty? If it is I would contact Western Digital about getting a new drive. I haven't dealt with them, but if they are like Seagate, they will stand behind it.

Did you buy it wholesale or retail? If you bought it wholesale, they might not honor the warranty.

If it is a faulty drive and they won't honor the warranty, you might check out SSD. I just ordered a laptop for my boss with an SSD and that thing really cranks. Boot up is incredibly fast and opening programs works much faster too. New Egg has a decent selection of SSDs to choose from at pretty good prices.

Best of luck.

Samsung just released their 850 series with a 1Tb SSD, and 10 year warranty. I'm all over that!





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[CityHunt3r]

Ssd s are the way to go especially on laptops. Hdd are old.... been us8ng ssd since 2010 fast and so far reliable.

[BothEyesOpen]

1tb drive that right there is your problem, personally i dont go over 300gb drives even if i have to use 2 or 3. Usually only 2 and if i need more for storage i use external. But my reasoning is that the bigger the drive the more it has to spin to get the info. i mean honestly i can still go back and pull out a old 80 gb HDD and it still works, i noticed this when they started coming out with 500 gb HArd drives, they would fail after a couple years where my old 250gb was still running strong. So yeah thats the reason i stick with 300gb and under. Now if your talking solid state drives thats a diffrent story.

[the86d]

If you use this method you won't have to keep a different disc for every HDD MFR:
Boot to Knoppix CD/DVD, go to the CLI, type "su" <CR>, then "smartctl -H /dev/sda" <CR>.

That should give S.M.A.R.T health status for starters.

If you then did a "smartctl --all /dev/sda|more" you could see if the drive detects itself doing something funky.

Is this machine on a UPS, or not?

[the86d]

She-ight. In seeking something else, I installed a graphical defrag application that works with Windows, and this might just be what YOU needed. I noticed that it ALSO lists S.M.A.R.T. stats, and is gratis.

Uncheck the optional boxes upon install:

http://www.filehippo.com/download_defraggler

Click "Download latest version"...

After installing, you can click the drive (well volume for the drive anyway) and then "Health" to get the S.M.A.R.T. stats.