Hello Eight Forums!
I need some advice regarding my laptop's internal hard drive (WD 500GB).
I recently started getting I/O Device Errors when reading, copying or writing certain files to my HD or any external mass storage device. It started with winRAR extraction errors, then went on to file copying, downloading and DVD burning. All of these applications either terminate file operations abruptly informing me that a file cannot be accessed because of an I/O error.
Curious enough, I installed CrystalDisk Info and saw that my HDD's health was on WARNING. The application pointed out errors on my HD's Reallocated and Pending Sectors count. However, Windows 8's CHKDSK reported no problems on the drive which confused me as the results were contradicting.
I then uninstalled CrystalDisk and replaced it with HDTune. HDTune also gave me a WARNING health status. Here is a screenshot:
Windows also started to experience great Disk Usage spikes even when its idle. This is a recurring scenario and greatly affects my PC's performance.
Is my hard drive failing?? Is there a way for me to save my HDD's life? I have all my files backed up to an external drive ever since this issue existed and I'm afraid that this may be the start of my HDD's end of life.
Is there any tool at all that can help me at least isolate the bad sectors and prevent Windows from writing data on them? I don't care if it shrinks my hard drive space as long as it solves the issue.
Thank you Eight Forums!
I need some advice regarding my laptop's internal hard drive (WD 500GB).
I recently started getting I/O Device Errors when reading, copying or writing certain files to my HD or any external mass storage device. It started with winRAR extraction errors, then went on to file copying, downloading and DVD burning. All of these applications either terminate file operations abruptly informing me that a file cannot be accessed because of an I/O error.
Curious enough, I installed CrystalDisk Info and saw that my HDD's health was on WARNING. The application pointed out errors on my HD's Reallocated and Pending Sectors count. However, Windows 8's CHKDSK reported no problems on the drive which confused me as the results were contradicting.
I then uninstalled CrystalDisk and replaced it with HDTune. HDTune also gave me a WARNING health status. Here is a screenshot:
Windows also started to experience great Disk Usage spikes even when its idle. This is a recurring scenario and greatly affects my PC's performance.
Is my hard drive failing?? Is there a way for me to save my HDD's life? I have all my files backed up to an external drive ever since this issue existed and I'm afraid that this may be the start of my HDD's end of life.
Is there any tool at all that can help me at least isolate the bad sectors and prevent Windows from writing data on them? I don't care if it shrinks my hard drive space as long as it solves the issue.
Thank you Eight Forums!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Acer Aspire V5-471G
- CPU
- Intel Core i3-3217u 1.8 GHZ
- Motherboard
- Phoenix Something...
- Memory
- 6.0 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- nVIDIA geForce GT 620M
- Screen Resolution
- 1366x7768
- Hard Drives
- Western Digital 500 GB
- Internet Speed
- 2 MBPS
- Browser
- Mozilla Firefox
- Antivirus
- ESET SMART SECURITY 8