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Septem+
Greetings,
I have a 2 yeay old Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 120 Gig hard drive,
model ID ST3120026AS, divided into 2 X 60 Gig partitions with XP Pro
installed.
2 days ago, I noticed a definite sluggishness on the system eg. a 145
meg .zip file took 5 minutes to decompress, the Start->Programs menu
was sluggish etc...
CHKDSK reported no errors, I had defragged a week ago, but am a bit
wary of defragging again yet...
So, I downloaded SeaTools and ran a full system check.
Seatools reports no hardware or memory errors, BUT reported file
system errors which it says it cannot help with but chkdsk can.
It also said the following:
"PARTITION 1. RESULT: Failed with critical errors.
- One or more errors were found in the index
PARTITION 2. RESULT: Failed with critical errors.
- One or more errors were found in the index
- One or more errors were found in the metadata file records"
I ran chkdsk in safe mode (the GUI version) and it, again, reported no
errors.
1.] Is this drive failing?
2.] What should be my next step?
Many thanks for your time in this matter.
I have a 2 yeay old Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 120 Gig hard drive,
model ID ST3120026AS, divided into 2 X 60 Gig partitions with XP Pro
installed.
2 days ago, I noticed a definite sluggishness on the system eg. a 145
meg .zip file took 5 minutes to decompress, the Start->Programs menu
was sluggish etc...
CHKDSK reported no errors, I had defragged a week ago, but am a bit
wary of defragging again yet...
So, I downloaded SeaTools and ran a full system check.
Seatools reports no hardware or memory errors, BUT reported file
system errors which it says it cannot help with but chkdsk can.
It also said the following:
"PARTITION 1. RESULT: Failed with critical errors.
- One or more errors were found in the index
PARTITION 2. RESULT: Failed with critical errors.
- One or more errors were found in the index
- One or more errors were found in the metadata file records"
I ran chkdsk in safe mode (the GUI version) and it, again, reported no
errors.
1.] Is this drive failing?
2.] What should be my next step?
Many thanks for your time in this matter.