I seem to be having some problems with one of my hard drives which I just cannot put my finger on. It is a Seagate 320 GB sata hard drive. It has been running perfectly until the last few weeks. Normal tasks such as copying or moving files to the hard drive just take forever. Unzipping a compressed file onto the hard drive also takes absolutely ages.
I thought it could be that it needs defragmenting, but I run diskeeper in the background, and analysing it shows no file fragments.
The steps I have already taken are:
I have defragged it regardless of what diskeeper was telling me.
I have run an error checking scan and that showed no errors also.
This is really frustrating, I just can't work out what is up with it. The hard drive is definitely within warranty, however I want to be sure there is a fault before sending back. Also, the drive is not even that full, only 81.2 GB being used.
Any help/suggestions would be most appreciated.
Thanks.