I have a 4 year old internal WD 300 GB SATA hard drive that I used for storage and backup purposes. Recently it was written over by a RAID management tool when one of my other drives had failed. I corrected all the problems, and restored the raid back to the drives that it should be on, and ran GetDataBack to recovery some of the files off of my storage drive. Ever since this time the folders in the root level (D:\all folders) take about 5 seconds to open. In fact when I single click on a folder in the root level it takes about 5 seconds for it to even get highlighted.
What I have observed. All other folders work perfectly fast, the ones that are only slow to highlight and open are the ones directly following the drive letter. I decided to make a single folder and put all the other folders in it at the root level, hoping that changing the directory would change things or give me a clue. And with the same result. It leads me to believe it's not the directory itself. Putting shortcuts to folders further in the tree on my desktop open fast like normal. Other hard drives, including my external drive connected using USB perform flawlessly and open fast at all levels.
What I have tried. Formatting the drive, low level formatting, repairing the boot sector (fixboot) with the recovery console, various diagnosis programs downloadable off the net. I have tried changing the folder options and settings to match my other hard drives.
Since, I have removed the drive from my computer, and reinstalled windows. I haven't hooked it back up to see if the same thing results after a fresh install of my OS. Since it is not broken "per se" and still will function I'm thinking of buying an external enclosure and replacing it with a larger newer WD hard drive.
Does anyone have ANY idea one what may be happening here with the drive?
Brandon
What I have observed. All other folders work perfectly fast, the ones that are only slow to highlight and open are the ones directly following the drive letter. I decided to make a single folder and put all the other folders in it at the root level, hoping that changing the directory would change things or give me a clue. And with the same result. It leads me to believe it's not the directory itself. Putting shortcuts to folders further in the tree on my desktop open fast like normal. Other hard drives, including my external drive connected using USB perform flawlessly and open fast at all levels.
What I have tried. Formatting the drive, low level formatting, repairing the boot sector (fixboot) with the recovery console, various diagnosis programs downloadable off the net. I have tried changing the folder options and settings to match my other hard drives.
Since, I have removed the drive from my computer, and reinstalled windows. I haven't hooked it back up to see if the same thing results after a fresh install of my OS. Since it is not broken "per se" and still will function I'm thinking of buying an external enclosure and replacing it with a larger newer WD hard drive.
Does anyone have ANY idea one what may be happening here with the drive?
Brandon