a strange issue with my C drive
Hi all,
Over the past few days, I have been having an odd problem with my C drive. Let's say I am trying to play a music file. I try to play said file, and the playback is very intermittent, and severely slows down the system at least for a little while. Most of the time I don't wait for extended periods of time to see if it eventually settles down. It happens so often now that it's become an issue.
If I stop and immediately replay the same portion of the file again, the problem goes away until it reaches new data it hasn't played yet, at which point it continues to bog things down and hang. I've tried with multiple media players and they all seem to not like it. Flac and wave files are particularly horrible, but smaller files like mp3s still suffer to varying degrees.
When copying problematic files from the C drive to an external, not only do they play fine once on the external but they copy at around 20 mbps as reported by Explorer, which
is what I normally expect from my USB 2.0 external drives. There were no unusual hang-ups or problems during the file transfers either. Most of the time, the PC is responsive and relatively fast. It's only when playing media files when I encounter these slow-downs.
The system is a Win 7 64 bit desktop. The C drive model is WDC WD10EADX-22TDHB0.
I've tried restarting multiple times, defragmenting the drive, cleaning up the registry, cleaning up temp and unnecessary junk, disabling the file indexing service in Explorer, freeing more space, uninstalling programs I no longer need, and copying problematic files to another drive. All of these things have helped my overall performance which was starting to slow up, but they didn't address the problem I've been getting at.
All I can think of now is to either run chkdsk, or reformat. The former would leave my system unusable for a time since it would be without speech while chkdsk is running. This is a 1 tb
drive, so I could possibly be waiting for days. The latter option would be more of a serious undertaking which at this point I don't feel is worth it. This PC is a few years old now, and was pretty cheap even at the time I bought it. It has already needed a fan replacement, so if the HD is next, I don't see the point in continuing with it. I'd like to verify that the HD is to blame before I do anything drastic though. I don't want to throw out a perfectly good hard drive that's just being used incorrectly by the OS. I've thought of trying to take the drive out and mount it in a USB case, but then I'd be without my desktop. The process, from what I've heard, isn't straightforward either. So I don't think I'll be doing that soon.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be going on and could advise me on what to do next?
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