Om7 Posted September 27, 2009 Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 Today I installed a new drive and started copying things over. Everything was going fine until I told uTorrent to recheck the files....First of all, the PC locks up every few seconds when rechecking, for a second, then continues. I thought this was odd, but left it to it and came back around 4 hours later. It had only rechecked 2.5% of 482mb!I have watched the CPU usage, and it shows normal (around 8% usage) until it locks, then straight after the lock it hits 100% and then dies back down to normal again.The drive is a Western Digital 500gb (WD5000AAKS) drive connected through a Pluscom VT6421A.Any ideas where I have gone wrong? Edit;Okay, it might be not be a utorrent problem. :$ I was just copying some files over and it kept locking up the same as when rechecking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 27, 2009 Report Share Posted September 27, 2009 Could be a messed up drive. Failing drives often slow down horribly, likely because the drive is repeatedly trying to re-read bad sectors (I've had first-hand experience with a failed drive recently). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Om7 Posted September 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 I received the drive (new) on Thursday and in installed it yesterday (Saturday).There is a possibility it could have been damaged in the post etc but I cannot really complain until I am sure. Is there anything else that could be wrong? Any kind of program I can run it through?It is the first SATA drive I have owned, so could be something I have done wrong maybe?Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultima Posted September 28, 2009 Report Share Posted September 28, 2009 Dunno. Try HDTune's error scan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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