harddrive breaking down slows down pc speed??? please help!!

the_morbidus · October 16th, 2006, 00:20

ok so its almost like its read on the thread title, these past 5 years i've had 4 harddrives breaking down on me and well for some reason after the second one breaking down my computer speed or performance, call with whatever makes you more comfortable, was brought down to half, now that i have put my 5th hard drive it seems like its down to 1/4, altho during game play its not very noticeable i wonder whats going on since im not very good with pcs, i only know the normal installation procedures of most programs and installing most pc hardware....not much of a troubleshooter kinda person.

btw i also replaced my power supply 2 times, when i first replaced the power supply i dont remember if it was when the speed went down the first time, but the second time was when i replaced the 5th hard drive to.

pc specs:

P4 1.7ghz, dont know about the motherboard, but it uses double slots for the ddr at 800mhz os speed.
768mbs ram
Nvidia GeForce FX 5600
Creative audigy Xgamer
120 gbs of space

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S.SubZero · October 16th, 2006, 22:54

Do you have spyware or something? Your issue sounds really weird. It's *always* slower immediately after setting up a new hard drive?

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darth sephiroth · October 17th, 2006, 14:14

Hmm, maybe you're harddrives are slower? are you quite sure you've bought equally fast or faster harddrives when you needed new ones?
oh and harddrives don't break down that much, try reformatting next time it "breaks" (most likely, it's not your harddrives breaking, it's your windows).
and you'll notice needing to change powersupply if windows starts complaining about too little electricity or your computer not powering up at all.

and if it's not slower during gameplay then it's your harddrives loading times or your windows causing trouble for no apparant reason.

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Iran · October 18th, 2006, 13:26

If your drive got many bad sectors this will surely slows down ur pc so try to do a scandisk on your drive and make sure to tick both options and try to cool your drive a bit by installing one of this or f u want to save some cash just get some old 80mm fan and mount it pointing to your drive.

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darth sephiroth · October 18th, 2006, 13:56

Iran, did you read his problem at all? or just the title?

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RZetlin · October 18th, 2006, 14:37

What do you mean your hard drive breaks down? It doesn't start up at all?

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darth sephiroth · October 18th, 2006, 18:44

It would be odd if it was. We're just waiting for him to reply

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cyclonmaster · October 18th, 2006, 19:18

Try low level format to get rid of bad sector. Or is it your new power supply causes it?

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darth sephiroth · October 18th, 2006, 21:02

another person who did not read the problem properly at all...

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the_morbidus · October 19th, 2006, 00:09

ok so basically i've had 4 harddrives during these 5 years, resuming it shortly, after installation of each of them the computer performance went down a bit.

0year--------1year------2year-------3year------4year------5year
-------------------1HD---------------2HD--------3HD-------4HD
--------------------------------1st power supply------------2nd power supply
100% speed--------------------------70% speed------------50% speed

programs freeze quite a bit, i cant run more than 3 programs at same time or the lag is to big....

also all HDs taht i had,had all 7200rpms
one last thing, i think the HDs broke down on me cause it wouldnt work cause it woudlnt even allow me to format it, just coudlnt read it.

Smooth Criminal · October 20th, 2006, 15:49

welli dont have hdd trouble shhooting experience
but these could be a problem with ide connectors??
or it could be an hdd manufacture defect
or good old windows error try a frseh install

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darth sephiroth · October 20th, 2006, 17:05

shafeen read the last post before yours...

hmm so now we can know they're breaking down. Perhaps you should think about trashing your MB. If there's a fault in the MB it can have all sorts of wild consequences.

Like how the NTFS file system somehow managed to get my motherboard to think the mouse was a harddrive and tried to boot to it (my old MB)

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RedLion · October 20th, 2006, 18:29

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Originally Posted by darth sephiroth

you should think about trashing your MB.

Wow radical solution I think...

Ok You changed your hard drives 5 times,isn't it? Meaby your IDE cable is damaged. Just check it and try change them to see before meaby thinking buying another motherboard.

Second try this:Hdtune tool.It will help you check your disk and see if the problem come from here. Tell us if you got performances probs.

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October 16th, 2006, 00:20	#1
the_morbidus The next Drif King Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Toronto , Canada Posts: 739	harddrive breaking down slows down pc speed??? please help!! ok so its almost like its read on the thread title, these past 5 years i've had 4 harddrives breaking down on me and well for some reason after the second one breaking down my computer speed or performance, call with whatever makes you more comfortable, was brought down to half, now that i have put my 5th hard drive it seems like its down to 1/4, altho during game play its not very noticeable i wonder whats going on since im not very good with pcs, i only know the normal installation procedures of most programs and installing most pc hardware....not much of a troubleshooter kinda person. btw i also replaced my power supply 2 times, when i first replaced the power supply i dont remember if it was when the speed went down the first time, but the second time was when i replaced the 5th hard drive to. pc specs: P4 1.7ghz, dont know about the motherboard, but it uses double slots for the ddr at 800mhz os speed. 768mbs ram Nvidia GeForce FX 5600 Creative audigy Xgamer 120 gbs of space anything else wanna know just ask.

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October 16th, 2006, 22:54	#2
S.SubZero Windows 8 Pro Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Bay Area, California Posts: 1,144	Do you have spyware or something? Your issue sounds really weird. It's always slower immediately after setting up a new hard drive? __________________ -SSZ

October 17th, 2006, 14:14	#3
darth sephiroth .!. (^.^) .!. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: You're looking at it right now. Posts: 2,017	Hmm, maybe you're harddrives are slower? are you quite sure you've bought equally fast or faster harddrives when you needed new ones? oh and harddrives don't break down that much, try reformatting next time it "breaks" (most likely, it's not your harddrives breaking, it's your windows). and you'll notice needing to change powersupply if windows starts complaining about too little electricity or your computer not powering up at all. and if it's not slower during gameplay then it's your harddrives loading times or your windows causing trouble for no apparant reason. __________________ "Going too far is going almost all the way around the world, then turn around to go back" - me "He's not going too far, he's going around the world" - me "They're looking for a factbook in the fiction section of the library." - me "I find spam useless and fatally contradictive to its own existence." - me

October 18th, 2006, 13:56	#5
darth sephiroth .!. (^.^) .!. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: You're looking at it right now. Posts: 2,017	Iran, did you read his problem at all? or just the title? __________________ "Going too far is going almost all the way around the world, then turn around to go back" - me "He's not going too far, he's going around the world" - me "They're looking for a factbook in the fiction section of the library." - me "I find spam useless and fatally contradictive to its own existence." - me

October 18th, 2006, 14:37	#6
RZetlin General of Tangerines Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Defending the Sea Posts: 3,923	What do you mean your hard drive breaks down? It doesn't start up at all? __________________ AMD Athlon 64 3700+ \| 2 GB RAM \| XFX Nvidia 6800 GS 256 MB XXX Edition \| Win XP Pro SP3 "Asu no Egao no Tame ni!" - So We Can Smile Tomorrow! Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/RZetlin

October 18th, 2006, 18:44	#7
darth sephiroth .!. (^.^) .!. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: You're looking at it right now. Posts: 2,017	It would be odd if it was. We're just waiting for him to reply __________________ "Going too far is going almost all the way around the world, then turn around to go back" - me "He's not going too far, he's going around the world" - me "They're looking for a factbook in the fiction section of the library." - me "I find spam useless and fatally contradictive to its own existence." - me

October 18th, 2006, 19:18	#8
cyclonmaster EmuAddict-_-;; Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Sarawak, Malaysia Posts: 2,736	Try low level format to get rid of bad sector. Or is it your new power supply causes it? __________________ :::Gadget Dream:::Dropbox::: Win XP SP3 \| Monitor BenQ FP 91G+\|Intel Core i3-530 2.93GHz \| GA-P55-USB3L - GIGABYTE \| Albatron 6600GT 128MB PCI-E \| Corsairs 2GB DDR3 Laptop Lenovo z460 : Win XP SP3 \| Intel Core i5-460M(2.8GHz) \| NVidia G310M CUDA DDR3 1GB \| 2GB DDR3 Memory \| 500GB HDD SATA \| 14.1 WXGA LED Display Please Answer This Survey. Thank You.

October 18th, 2006, 21:02	#9
darth sephiroth .!. (^.^) .!. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: You're looking at it right now. Posts: 2,017	another person who did not read the problem properly at all... __________________ "Going too far is going almost all the way around the world, then turn around to go back" - me "He's not going too far, he's going around the world" - me "They're looking for a factbook in the fiction section of the library." - me "I find spam useless and fatally contradictive to its own existence." - me

October 19th, 2006, 00:09	#10
the_morbidus The next Drif King Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Toronto , Canada Posts: 739	ok so basically i've had 4 harddrives during these 5 years, resuming it shortly, after installation of each of them the computer performance went down a bit. 0year--------1year------2year-------3year------4year------5year -------------------1HD---------------2HD--------3HD-------4HD --------------------------------1st power supply------------2nd power supply 100% speed--------------------------70% speed------------50% speed programs freeze quite a bit, i cant run more than 3 programs at same time or the lag is to big.... also all HDs taht i had,had all 7200rpms one last thing, i think the HDs broke down on me cause it wouldnt work cause it woudlnt even allow me to format it, just coudlnt read it.

October 20th, 2006, 17:05	#12
darth sephiroth .!. (^.^) .!. Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: You're looking at it right now. Posts: 2,017	shafeen read the last post before yours... hmm so now we can know they're breaking down. Perhaps you should think about trashing your MB. If there's a fault in the MB it can have all sorts of wild consequences. Like how the NTFS file system somehow managed to get my motherboard to think the mouse was a harddrive and tried to boot to it (my old MB) __________________ "Going too far is going almost all the way around the world, then turn around to go back" - me "He's not going too far, he's going around the world" - me "They're looking for a factbook in the fiction section of the library." - me "I find spam useless and fatally contradictive to its own existence." - me