Have a friend who owns a Toshiba Satellite laptop that's barely over 2 years old. He called to tell me he was getting pop-ups telling him the drive was failing and to back up his working files immediately. He brought it to me. Thinking it was probably just some bad sectors, I ran chkdsk /r on it. It indicated there were NO errors at all on the disk. . . but it took over 2 hours to run, and everything the computer did was painfully slow (a Core i5 with 4GB RAM). Everything on the computer worked; i.e., it booted, desktop was fine and you could do essentially everything you've ever done on it, albeit slowly.
I deduced from this that the electronics on the drive and the stepper motor for the head were A-OK, but the motor that spins the platter was failing/was turning it at a very slow speed.
I've never seen a drive go "partially" bad like this. Is my conclusion correct that the culprit is the platter motor?
I deduced from this that the electronics on the drive and the stepper motor for the head were A-OK, but the motor that spins the platter was failing/was turning it at a very slow speed.
I've never seen a drive go "partially" bad like this. Is my conclusion correct that the culprit is the platter motor?