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Question

Harddrive lag

by Nov 15, 2016 11:59PM PST

I have two harddrives in my desktop. My second harddrive (FHappy seems to lag sometimes. Ocassionaly, when I try to open my F drive, my computer will lag (I can still move my mouse), and I'll hear my harddrive spinning really fast for 3-5 seconds and then the folder will open. This lag sometimes also happens when I'm working in a software which uses some files in the harddrive.

Is it going to sleep? Is it faulty? I don't know! Please help!

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Power plan
by Nov 16, 2016 12:21AM PST

Set your power plan option to high perf.
Go through each option in the plan and set it to never or always on.
Test.

Next run a pass of chkdsk ...scan for bad sectors/full scan.
Read the chkdsk log....use google.

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Start your PC in safe mode
by Nov 17, 2016 8:36PM PST

Start your PC in safe mode and then run hard disk scan. It may be virus attack. Check for it.

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