Weird (possibly) hard drive issue

DJHarrison

DJHarrison

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Hey everyone,

Having a weird issue with some machines I'm working on. Where I'm working, we have multiples of these generic machines that are built locally by a company. They are about 6 years old now and have been working fine up until recently. On a few, they have randomly became REALLY slow. So first thought was to reimage them. After reimaging them, they are still slow. We swapped hard drives and they are still slow. Well I brought one home with me today and BAM! it works perfectly now. So I put another hard drive in to put an image on and the image won't distribute. Well, I decide to just put a plain copy of XP on. After doing this, the computer is CRAWLING slow again. I put the drive in it that works, and there is no problem. This is happening on 4 different machines and not sure what the deal is. It would be greatly appreciated if you guys could help me out!

Thanks :)
 
Will try that! I got the image working on another hard drive, but I want to test them and make sure they aren't faulty. Thanks!
 
Alright,

After running diagnostics, the hard drive did indeed fail. It said it had bad sectors. Ran check disk and still got the same error afterwards. Guess I need to buy some new hard drives or just wing it and see if these work for awhile. These computers will be replaced in a year, so I don't really want to go through the trouble of buying new hard drives for probably around 50 of them plus power adapters.

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JHM said:
You could use TESTHDD to remap the drives so as to exclude the bad sectors, then copy your image file onto them.
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Wouldn't recommend that. Once bad sectors start appearing they usually continue to appear until the drive is in fact shot. It's best to get a new drive now and not worry about losing data.
 
johnb35 said:
Wouldn't recommend that. Once bad sectors start appearing they usually continue to appear until the drive is in fact shot. It's best to get a new drive now and not worry about losing data.
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Everything is saved on the network. Only thing on the Hard Drive is the OS. Turned out not being a hard drive issue though. It had something to do with a lot of our network issues we were having.
 
That doesn't change the fact that your HDD test failed. The hard drive is still bad.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
That doesn't change the fact that your HDD test failed. The hard drive is still bad.
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I know it is. Just trying to make these computers last another year. IF a hard drive does goes bad, we can put another in it not being used at the time and image the computer in about 10 minutes if needed. People are required to save everything on their network drive or external. If they fail to do so, we aren't liable for their stupidity.
 
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