Hard drive slow

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sammytheman

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Hey fellas lately one of my HD is not working properly. I have a total of 3 and on the one that is not working, I have many movies that when I open them they are EXTREMELY slow. It takes 2 mins to open windows media player. I tried to open it using divx, VLC media player and they are all the same. When I play movies from my other 2 drives, they play flawlessly. All 3 are Seagate brand. I tested the faulty HD with "SeaTools" by 1st doing a "S.M.A.R.T Check" and then "Short Drive Self Test". Both passed. When I ran the "Long Drive Self Test", I got failed error midway through. The other strange thing is that at one point the 3rd drive went missing in "My Computer". I checked device manager under "disk drives" to see if it was there, and it was not. I went to BIOS, but it was there :eek: Also when I restart my PC, the windows green bar going across comes up, and then the screen goes black for up to 20 mins before the login screen appears. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Oh and I have Vista 64 BTW.
 
If the drive's still covered, I'd consider contacting Seagate. I'm thinking most of their drives have 5 year warranty's on them.

The drive disappearing from Windows but still showing under the BIOS isn't that strange really. It can be pretty common if the drive has failed. As with your drive though, I'd still try some stuff before calling it shot. You never mentioned how it connected. If it's IDE or SATA. If it's IDE, make try setting it as a Master of it's own channel; perhaps remove a drive/CD-ROM to test it out. If SATA(well, IDE too), try another channel and/or cable. Also, if it's SATA, confirm your board supports SATA300 (assuming that's what the drive is). If not, there's usually a jumper to change the interface speed on the drive.
 
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