New Hard Drive Freezing

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thechink09

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I just installed a new Seagate 2tb drive in my computer for extra storage but it is acting funny. When ever i open a file in it, it freezes for 10-15 seconds before opening it. Theres no problem opening the root directory (/E) but as soon as i open my movies, pictures or another file it does the freezing. This only seems to occur on the 1st time i open a file after rebooting.

Is there a problem with this drive or is there a reason for this? Just wanna make sure the drive is defective before time runs out to exchange it.
 
Go to the Seagate support site and download the ISO for SeaTools HDD tests. Burn it to a CD and test the drive. It might be defective.
 
thechink09 said:
i downloaded the version for windows and it passed, is the ISO version better or more accurate?
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I prefer the DOS version myself, just because I feel that because the drive is in use during testing it may not be as accurate.

If it passes that as well, you could also test your RAM with Memtest86+
 
Its not my main drive, I have a SSD as my main drive and 2 other drives include the new one.

I have use the DOS version before and I remember there being a short and long test. The windows version doesn't have the long test, not really sure what the difference is but I always felt better after passing the long test. I don't have any CD's at the moment so can't use that.

Also passed memtest
 
Programs like Memory turbo have an option called CPU ROCKET.That option uses your CPU as much as possible for the currently active application in order to run it as best as possible.However before the CPU ROCKET does its job,it needs to prepare CPU for use on the currently active application (that is being turned on by you manually) and while it is preparing the CPU,THAT is the moment when your computer starts to freeze on few seconds (how long depends on your CPU).Once the CPU usage has been prepared for the currently active application then all the functions will unfreeze again and your application (VLC,WMP,Paint,Mozilla or any other application)...will also unfreeze and then it will start to function normal.

So if you have programs that do these kind of operations,then turn that option OFF.Unless if you need it to run your programs/games fast in the case if your system specifications are low of course.

If you do not have that then try formatting the entire HDD with the KILL DISK and then create one partition that uses the entire drive and format it using the NTFS file system,but do NOT use the QUICK format.


Let us know how it passed.



Cheers!
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