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drgonzo · 02-13-2006, 05:14 AM

I am running an ASUS Z9000 laptop with a 60gb 5400RPM Toshiba drive.
Just last night the system started running extremely slow and freezing up at times. It would also take at least 2x as long or longer to boot up and shutdown.

When I tested the drive's speed, it was only accessing at 2mb/s. Now, not knowing if this was some sort of a controller issue on the motherboard or a harddrive problem, I decided to install my secondary (backup) harddrive in its place and load on Windows. The secondary drive works fine... normal speeds. So then, putting in the original drive into an external enclosure on a usb port I tested the speed again - this time it was getting about 1mb/s.

So now that I determined that something happened to the original drive to make it run at a snail's place, the question is, what happened? Was it heat?
What can cause something like this, and how can I prevent it in the future?
At least the drive is not completely dead (yet) so that I can still recover the data from it.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

02-13-2006, 05:14 AM	#1
drgonzo Member (2 bit) Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 3	Major HD problem - why? I am running an ASUS Z9000 laptop with a 60gb 5400RPM Toshiba drive. Just last night the system started running extremely slow and freezing up at times. It would also take at least 2x as long or longer to boot up and shutdown. When I tested the drive's speed, it was only accessing at 2mb/s. Now, not knowing if this was some sort of a controller issue on the motherboard or a harddrive problem, I decided to install my secondary (backup) harddrive in its place and load on Windows. The secondary drive works fine... normal speeds. So then, putting in the original drive into an external enclosure on a usb port I tested the speed again - this time it was getting about 1mb/s. So now that I determined that something happened to the original drive to make it run at a snail's place, the question is, what happened? Was it heat? What can cause something like this, and how can I prevent it in the future? At least the drive is not completely dead (yet) so that I can still recover the data from it. Any ideas? Thanks for your help.