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Having problems with my second Hard Drive
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:50 pm
by Sinner
Well, I have this second Hard Drive, I took from my old PC. The thing is, it lags as hell...
When I`m listening to music, and the songs are from that HD, it so freaking laggy... Stucks, plays and so on.. I watch a movie, same story. I reinstalled windows. The connection is good, cuz 2 different PC shops checked it. I dont know what could possible cause it.. Anyone here know whats wrong? And how can I solve that? Cuz I`m running out of Hard Drive space, and I don`t really want to buy a new one..
Re: Having problems with my second Hard Drive
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:30 pm
by pr0klobster
Can you give more info? Is the second drive a SATA or IDE?
IDE drives that are chained with a CD/DVDROM can be slowed down to the slowest device in the chain. If that's the case it'll probably be slower, although I don't know that it should lag like that.
Re: Having problems with my second Hard Drive
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:09 pm
by Sinner
pr0klobster wrote:Can you give more info? Is the second drive a SATA or IDE?
IDE drives that are chained with a CD/DVDROM can be slowed down to the slowest device in the chain. If that's the case it'll probably be slower, although I don't know that it should lag like that.
Uhm.. If I`m correct its IDE, but I`m so unsure. I dont remember when I`ve connected it.. x_x
Is there anyway I can check without opening my PC and dissconecting it?
Re: Having problems with my second Hard Drive
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:28 pm
by pr0klobster
For grins, grab HDTach (You'll want to measure HD performance anyway). It should show the model number of the drive(s) without opening up your PC. We can determine what RPM of the drive, SATA/IDE, etc. For all I know you may have a 4200 RPM IDE drive. (most common nowadays are 7200 rpm)
The other thing is, did you format the drive when you removed it from the "old" pc? If you've got NTFS on one volume and FAT32 on the other, that might cause weird issues.
Defragging the drive would be good too.
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/in ... est=HdTach
Re: Having problems with my second Hard Drive
Posted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 6:45 pm
by Sinner
pr0klobster wrote:For grins, grab HDTach (You'll want to measure HD performance anyway). It should show the model number of the drive(s) without opening up your PC. We can determine what RPM of the drive, SATA/IDE, etc. For all I know you may have a 4200 RPM IDE drive. (most common nowadays are 7200 rpm)
The other thing is, did you format the drive when you removed it from the "old" pc? If you've got NTFS on one volume and FAT32 on the other, that might cause weird issues.
Defragging the drive would be good too.
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/in ... est=HdTach
Well, I downloaded that HDTach.. I ran a test, but it gives me an Error on the 3rd or the 4th thingy there. After the CPU... I tried to format it few mins ago, it failed. I couldnt format it. At the begining it went good, few secs later I get an Error about failing the format -.-