Broken HD?

[Yoshmaista]

I have a problem in that I will be browsing my F: drive (a WD 160GB HD), but while browsing it will just kind of "freeze" up. The window remains, but no icons pop up, and then after a minute they will. In the process it also freezes up any other "My Computer" activities, like browsing on other hard drives and such. II can browse my C, D, and E drives fine. But when I browse the F: drive it will freeze, and then freeze up browsing on other drives as well.

If you need any furthur details, feel free to ask.

Thanks for the help in advance

[protias]

Could be some corruption in the OS. It's hard to say without knowing the specs of the system and computer usage history.

[Shadowed_Stranger]

Could you post the SMART data for your drive?

[Yoshmaista]

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/8871/smartzw2.jpg

[protias]

Use WD Diagnostic Tools instead. That will post the SMART data and show if it failed or is ok.

[Yoshmaista]

WD Diagnostic Tools reports a pass for every hard drive

[Shadowed_Stranger]

I have the exact same drive, and I looked up my smart data from that because i was curious, everythings exactly the same. even power on hours(you posted 2 hours ago and mine is 3 ohurs higher). temperature is even only 2 degrees(f) off from yours. The weird thing is, whenever I experience the problem you are having it is almost always something corrupt. it might be a folder that cant even be deleted(scratch on disk?) or usb drive, floppy, or cd.

your drive is fine, but i do not know how to fix it. Another question... are you having this problem only in windows explorer, or do other apps do it to?(open a pic on the drive in paint or an mp3 into winamp)

[Yoshmaista]

I have the exact same drive, and I looked up my smart data from that because i was curious, everythings exactly the same. even power on hours(you posted 2 hours ago and mine is 3 ohurs higher). temperature is even only 2 degrees(f) off from yours. The weird thing is, whenever I experience the problem you are having it is almost always something corrupt. it might be a folder that cant even be deleted(scratch on disk?) or usb drive, floppy, or cd.

your drive is fine, but i do not know how to fix it. Another question... are you having this problem only in windows explorer, or do other apps do it to?(open a pic on the drive in paint or an mp3 into winamp)

Yeah, it does it in anything with that drive. Like if I open a document or something from a folder. I think I'm just gonna do a fresh wipe. I don't have too much important stuff on there, so I should be alright.

[protias]

Yeah, it does it in anything with that drive. Like if I open a document or something from a folder. I think I'm just gonna do a fresh wipe. I don't have too much important stuff on there, so I should be alright.
Let us know when you get back if a reinstall took care of the problem.

[Yoshmaista]

Well, I didn't format, but I just deleted everything (Ctrl + A, shift+delete), and all works fine now. So I guess there was one folder or something that was messing it all up.

[protias]

Well, I didn't format, but I just deleted everything (Ctrl + A, shift+delete), and all works fine now. So I guess there was one folder or something that was messing it all up.
Glad to hear everything is in working order.