Question: Hi, so i started my pc this morning and suddenly boot is super slow and windows not responding.
I need to wait for at least 30 min for it to reach desktop and around 2 hours wait for the windows to start working properly again.
When it reached desktop i try to open task manager and see what happens, a lot of not responding task and i see the hdd with 100% use and the average response rate spike to 1000 ms+ and back to 0 in a second.
But after i wait 2 hours when windows started working properly again, i ran smart test on my hdd to see if it has some problem but the result shows that my hdd doesnt have any problem at all and it was at full health.
After that test i wanted to restart and see what happens. This same thing happen again.
I wait for around 30 min and then it went to desktop but not responding, i wait again for around 2 hour, it magically work again.
So is this the problem with the hdd? Or im missing something else? Thanks guys.
Answer:I would listen to mod rgd1101 that sounds like a virus but we could be wrong. After giving us more detail you say you hear the deadly hard drive ticking sound. Are you sure that tick is from the hard drive? Or could it be a fan? If it is the hard drive then that is not good news even if it shows its doing okay in CDI. That hard drive tick is not a good sign. Me personally I would backup your important information ASAP as we can’t trust a clicking hard drive ya know.?