Hi everyone,
Since my computer was slowing down, I decided to do a full defragmentation. I have two harddisks, one of 150 GB and one of 1 TB (if I remember correctly). I hadn’t used my desktop computer for over two years. Then I defragmented it with MyDefrag and it took a whopping 48 hours (!!!) to complete. Now upon rebooting, my system was incredibly slow AND it seems my HD actually broke down as now there is a whirring sound (very loud and much louder than usual) Thank God not yet any clicks, but I think I have no choice but to replace my HD. I’m running diagnostics as we speak to see which disk it is, but this completely sucks.
1. Is this caused by the defragmentation? 2. How come the defragmentation took so sickening long (They are a NTFS file system.)? and 3. Should I just go ahead and buy a new harddisk and give up on this one? Or is there any way I can fix it? (Besides CHKDSK which is a temporary fix)
Thanks for the help.