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I have a Seagate Momentus st9750423as 750GB 2.5 inch HDD running at 5400 RPM, and 16MB Cache. It’s SATA 3.0Gb/s, I put it in a USB 3.0 external enclosure, but it is running pretty slow when I connect it to my laptop. Is there a way to speed it up. I reformatted it and set it up with one NTFS GPT partition. I’m just going to use it for extra storage for videos and what not. I got it out of a junker laptop, so I’m not sure how old it is, but i did see it still sells for new for $64.00 on newegg, so I’m assuming its still a pretty decent HDD. Does anyone have any advice, is there a program I could install on it or something to make it run faster?
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Please post your laptop spec’s. If you are plugging your usb external drive in a 2.0 usb port this could be what’s slowing it down a bit.
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on the sticker on the Seagate drive you’ll find the date code, plug the code into here; Seagate date code calculator and decoder - bugaco.com and you’ll find the age.Comment
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I’m using my USB 3.0 port on my laptop.Originally posted by vgerComment
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I think the drive is corrupted. Here’s what has happened so far. So the HDD I am using I had installed Windows 8.1 on it about 8 months ago and it worked fine in another laptop that I was working on. But I ended up not using the HDD on that laptop, so I had the HDD sitting around since just now. So I put it in the enclosure and plugged it in my usb 3.0 port and it took a while to load, Windows said it detected errors on it and wanted me to fix them, but I decided not to because I planned on just reformatting it and wasn’t worried about recovering anything that was on it. So while I was making this initial post the HDD was formatting, it took about 4 hrs and in the end Windows said it couldn’t format the drive. I looked at the drive in This PC and it said it was formatted RAW file system because I’m assuming there was an error during the format. I tried a couple of times to try reformatting it and every time I plugged it into my laptop Explorer would end up freezing up, and it wouldn’t show in This PC. I tried booting into safe mode and that didn’t work, again it froze up, I also tried formatting it in Command Prompt ,but when I did diskpart it didn’t show the disk in the list, only my laptops HDD. I just went to the Event Viewer and I’ve been looking at the errors and here are a couple of them,
The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\DR6.,
The device, \Device\Harddisk1\DR8, has a bad block.,
A corruption was discovered in the file system structure on volume E:.
The Master File Table (MFT) contains a corrupted file record. The file reference number is 0xa00000000000a. The name of the file is “”.
These errors occured multiple times one after the other. So I am assuming the HDD is bad especially if the MFT is corrupt. But my question is if I run Dban on it will that possibly fix it?Comment
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Running DBan on the drive is an option but be aware that if the drive is bad it could fail when running DBan, this not a bad thing as it would avoid the same thing potentially happening when the drive had a lot of important data on it.
So that you are aware, what Veeg was pointing at was that an external USB HDD enclosure that had it`s own power supply would function much better than one powered only by a notebook or desktops USB port alone, the drive concerned is the slower 5400rpm 16mb of cache type and this will also have an impact on the data transfer rates.Originally posted by vgerComment
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Okay so I officially have no idea what is going on. I ended up using Paragon Partition Manager 15 to format and partition the HDD and it worked fine. But now when I plug it into my laptop it is detected in the taskbar as External USB 3.0, It shows up in Device Manager under Disks as TO External USB 3.0 SCSI Disk Device, and it shows in Disk Manager just fine. But when I go to Explorer it doesn’t show, and when I go to This PC under Device and Drives it doesn’t show. And when I try to move a file to it via Send To, it doesn’t show up. In Disk Manager it shows that the disk is working fine and it is partitioned fine and that the whole disk is free. So can someone please tell me what the H*ll is going on? In Device Manager the drivers are fine so it can’t be a driver issue, unless it is, but I have no idea what is going on.Comment
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What format (ext4, Fat 16/32, NTFS, GPT).Originally posted by Brandon Byrnes
Just one reason I do not use external programs to partition and format drives.
In Drive Manager see if you can get it to Format the drive then see if Windows File Manager can see it?Comment
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I formatted it as NTFS, I should also mention that along with that 750GB HDD I also used the same program to format a 320GB drive yesterday and I put that one into the HDD enclosure and Windows had no problem with that one, it showed up in This PC and also right when I plugged it in File Explorer went right into the drive, so that 320GB one is working fine. I’ll do like you said with the 750GB one and try to format it in Drive Manager. I’ll updated you in like an hour.Originally posted by RustysComment
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I just noticed too, that the 750GB drive has a Volume Label but not a drive letter, where as the 320GB drive has both and I am able to access that one fine, so is that the issue maybe? I just formatted it and it is doing the same thing, it is detected in the task bar but it doesn’t pop-up automatically like the 320GB drive did, and it also isn’t showing up in Explorer, but is showing up in device manager and disk management. I’m going to run chkdsk on it and see if it finds anything.Comment
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Ok keep us informed.
The other thing I would do is while in Drive Manager
Delete all the Volumes and Partitions for that drive and have Drive Manager recreate them.
If still have issues would suspect the HDD is on its way out.Comment
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Well I wasn’t able to run chkdsk on it because I just noticed when I just formatted it even though I chose ntfs after it formatted it said RAW file system, so yeah, I’m pretty sure this disk is shot, I think I screwed up yesterday when i decided not to fix the errors on it, instead just formatting it. So unless anyone has anymore ideas I think I may just trash the drive, and use the 320GB drive instead since that one seems to be working fine.Comment
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Well I’m pretty sure the disk is dead, but I’d like to try one more thing before I toss it. I’d like to try to repair the errors and bad sectors on it. The only problem is when I try to run chkdsk on it Windows says it needs to format it first, but that’s a catch 22 because Windows is not able to format it because of the errors and bad sectors, so therefore if I can’t format it because of the errors then I can’t run chkdsk to repair the errors. So do you know of a utility that I can use that will repair the errors and bad sectors on an unformatted disk? Yesterday I tried a program called HD Tune Pro, and used it to scan the drive to check for errors, well it showed that there are errors on about 85% of the disk. I used this because I had seen a video on youtube where the guy used this then he just created partitions from the parts of the disk that didn’t have errors and left the parts with errors unformatted. I was going to try this until it showed that my disk had so many errors. I may try dban again, I think it didn’t work last time because the flashdrive I used was so old and probably messed up. So yeah if you know of any utilities I can used to fix those errors I would appreciate it. I’ll update you on how dban worked tomorrow since I’m assuming if I can get dban to work then its probably going to take a LONG time.Originally posted by RustysComment
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Use Sea Tools on a Seagate hard drive
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I did that and it failed every test so I tossed it.Originally posted by plodrUse Sea Tools on a Seagate hard drive
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