Extremely Slow Hard Drive WD16000AAJS

[ShootMyC]

Hey guys im back again with an HDD repair case... I got an WD 1600AAJS Drive It was ,As usual a fine running drive by the time got by it got slower and slower.. windows took abt 15 mins to boot up,freez's, lags,low writing and copying speed every dumpo started to happen.. ..now the drive is still alive ,Detected by the bios.. but.. I barely cant even install windows or any other operating system onto it successfully.. I tried changing the SATA cables still no change... I tried fragmenting ...but.. I cant make it done.. I click a local disk partition drive right click it takes abt 15mins for the right click menu to come in then if I select properties.. it neva did appear! The Loading cursor goes on and on..

[chinopk]

it doesn't seems to be typical western digital slow problem, probably drive is failing due to bad sectors.
can you get s.m.a.r.t status ?

[pcimage]

Drive is failing.

As you obviously don't need the data, just scrap it and move on.

[fzabkar]

See the "slow fix" in the following threads:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29187&start=20

http://www.alexsoft.org/viewtopic.php?t ... 4345#p4345

[pcimage]

See the "slow fix" in the following threads:

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=29187&start=20

http://www.alexsoft.org/viewtopic.php?t ... 4345#p4345

That's as maybe, but I'm assuming he wants to re-use the drive and continue to use it.

The "slow fix" may well temporarily "fix" the drive for the purposes of recovery (which I assume is not required) but will not fix the underlying issues that caused the relo-list corruption and subsequent failure.

[pcn]

Just had a WD 1600AAJS drive here, SA was badly damaged (about 10 modules, and some of them critical), many bad sectors and weak head. It's an rather old WD model, so if such a drive has problems and data is not a priority I would trash it. They are on ebay for 10-30€, so one can simply buy a better working one.
If you need the data, you can try DIY-methods like slow-init fix / try dmde / linux / dd_rescue do get the data off. We had to change head & repair the critical modules, has been a long night but worked in the end