ThatAnonymousGuy
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Hello.
I have a WD 2TB black edition hard drive. Internal drive connected to SATA 3. Owned the drive for maybe 2-3 years. Hard drive is roughly 60% full. I use it for music, movies, documents, torrents, scratch drive for Adobe products, etc.
Recently I came back from vacation and booted up my computer. Before it used to take maybe less than 10 seconds upon accessing the drive the first time as I'm guessing it powers up when in use. Now when I go to My Computer and click on the storage drive it takes excessively longer to load the root of the drive. It takes roughly 7-8 minutes to load the root.
The weird thing is once it's loaded I can click on any folder (such as my music folder or my videos folder) and everything within those subfolders loads fast. I tested playing an MP3 and it loaded fine. I tested a large video file (roughly 1.6GB) and it loaded fine. Basically it starts stalling anytime I go back to the root.
I do a weekly defrag, and I scanned the drive with chkdsk. No errors were reported. I did not notice if either were slower than normal since I did them overnight.
My other system specs are Win 7 64-bit, 128GB Samsung 830 as my Windows drive, ASUS mobo. Any ideas why it's suddenly slow and how to maybe correct this? Anything to do with repairing the MBR? I am only familiar with MBR and never really messed with it.
Thanks in advance.
I have a WD 2TB black edition hard drive. Internal drive connected to SATA 3. Owned the drive for maybe 2-3 years. Hard drive is roughly 60% full. I use it for music, movies, documents, torrents, scratch drive for Adobe products, etc.
Recently I came back from vacation and booted up my computer. Before it used to take maybe less than 10 seconds upon accessing the drive the first time as I'm guessing it powers up when in use. Now when I go to My Computer and click on the storage drive it takes excessively longer to load the root of the drive. It takes roughly 7-8 minutes to load the root.
The weird thing is once it's loaded I can click on any folder (such as my music folder or my videos folder) and everything within those subfolders loads fast. I tested playing an MP3 and it loaded fine. I tested a large video file (roughly 1.6GB) and it loaded fine. Basically it starts stalling anytime I go back to the root.
I do a weekly defrag, and I scanned the drive with chkdsk. No errors were reported. I did not notice if either were slower than normal since I did them overnight.
My other system specs are Win 7 64-bit, 128GB Samsung 830 as my Windows drive, ASUS mobo. Any ideas why it's suddenly slow and how to maybe correct this? Anything to do with repairing the MBR? I am only familiar with MBR and never really messed with it.
Thanks in advance.
