Okay, I've been using a portable hard drive for a pretty long time. I keep steam and a few games on it so that it doesn't slow down the computer. However, since the night before last, my computer started lagging up like hell whenever it was turned on. It turns out that the portable hard drive is the problem; whenever it's unplugged, everything runs fine, but it takes ages to be recognized when it's plugged in, and when it does, explorer starts to run really, really slowly. For instance, the welcome screen takes two minutes instead of two seconds, logging in takes 5 minutes, and so on.
When I check the properties of the harddrive when it's plugged in, it reads as protected (i.e. 0bytes free, despite having 16gb free last time I checked).
I ran HDTune and in health check, it did have a warning; apparently the drive has unstable sectors: (C5) Current Pending Sector 100 100 0 2 warning (for each column).
Any ideas?
Bump.
Defrag, scan entire computer + external HDD with antivirus and [url=www.malwarebytes.org]Malewarebytes[/url].
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