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    Hard Drive locking up

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by sjafi, Dec 21, 2009.

  1. sjafi

    sjafi Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello,

    Until last night, I haven't had any trouble with my gt725, but now when I try to access my large partition on my hard drive, it starts to get very slow and eventually locks up.

    I have never experienced this and I can't figure out what is the issue. Looking back, all I can think of is that Adobe had some automatic updates that I installed, and then I tried to access my pictures folder and my computer started acting like the HD was dying!

    I do have a LOT of information in my pictures folder as I shoot photographs in RAW format, which results in huge files. I have also recently been working on a picture that has a couple copies, each of them being at least a gig in size. Could this have any impact on how the hard drive is performing?

    I doubt the HD is dying because this is such a new machine with great reviews, but it is beyond my knowledge of computers.

    If anyone has some ideas on getting this issue fixed it'd be of GREAT help! I really need to be able to work on my comp and get a project done before Christmas :(
     
    sjafi, Dec 21, 2009
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  2. neilnat

    neilnat Notebook Evangelist

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    Hard drives die on the best of machines. No matter the brand or the model, you'll get the occasional early failure. I don't know if that's the problem, but don't rule it out.
     
    neilnat, Dec 21, 2009
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