Recent content by Timl

I guess my HDD is supplied with enough power as I've never modified anything inside or even opened the case (my notebook is less than two months old and under guarantee).

Sure - tomorrow I'm buying headphones with a microphone and I'll try to record the sounds. Though I'm afraid they can be too quiet, especially when they are being muted by my fan. Still I'll do my best.

Are you sure? I can see all kinds of caches, and also the swap file. And do you think that for some reason my OS wants to store temporary data at the edge of HDD platters? Nevermind - right at the moment I'm performing a full deep HDD scan. We'll see :D EDIT: Test done! Guess what? Passed! In...

The trick? Lol. Defragmenter analization shows where is the data located. Gonna check WD diagnostics now. EDIT: Quick test fully passed - no problems. Running extended test now - estimated time 2-3hrs. EDIT: Done more research and found an interesting report...

I've downloaded and ran HDTune. Performing error scan through first 60GB (I'm sure that beyond this point there are no files) found no errors and quick scan through whole HDD also found no errors. Here is benchmark screenshot: Should you notice those two dramatic transfer rate falls and one...

No, Windows didn't want to make chkdsk on boot up even single time (I meant that I'm too lazy to restart computer to make a scan, as it needs to be performed during boot-up). Everything works perfectly fine. Indeed it makes clicks. It makes exact same clicks as my WD external drive, bought soon...

As I said, the lags occur every few seconds, not every twenty minutes. Still I've tried that option before with no effect. The HDD is not fragmented, still I ran a defragmentation - only 10 files remained fragmented. On a brand new HDD? I don't think so and I gave up scanning it during system...

Hello! I own Windows 7 x64 running on a new Acer Aspire laptop - 4GB RAM, Intel Core i3 2.13GHz, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5650 (1GB own memory). When I switch the computer on, the drive makes a characteristic sound - it is spun up, and its head is placed over the plates. When I turn computer off...