Hard Drive Errors....help!

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Hiya, i have been getting a ton of error messages relating to my hard drive. When they occur, my computer goes very very slow, you cant really do anything on it. These errors are random and occur frequently, sometimes days apart. Is something wrong with my hard drive? I had also disabled the write cache for my hard drive just in case that was the problem. any help appreciated! Here are the error codes: these error codes below occured around roughly 10 times in total around the same time: **Error 1: Details Product: Windows Operating System Event ID: 51 Source: Disk Version: 5.2 Symbolic Name: IO_WARNING_PAGING_FAILURE Message: An error was detected on device %1 during a paging operation. Explanation An input/output (I/O) request to a memory-mapped file failed and the operation was retried. User Action If these events are logged regularly on a primary system drive, replace the device. Otherwise, no user action is required. **Error 2 Details Product: Windows Operating System Event ID: 50 Source: Ntfs Version: 5.2 Symbolic Name: IO_LOST_DELAYED_WRITE Message: {Delayed Write Failed}Windows was unable to save all the data for the file %1. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere. Explanation Windows could not save data from memory to a disk because of problems with network connections or with hardware. The data has been lost. User Action If the data is still in memory, try to save it again. To determine the root cause of the problem, look in Event Viewer for messages that indicate problems with your disk or network connection. **Error 3: The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period. Details Product: Windows Operating System Event ID: 9 Source: atapi Version: 5.2 Symbolic Name: IO_ERR_TIMEOUT Message: The device, %1, did not respond within the timeout period. Explanation The attempt to read or write data timed out. **Error 4: The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur. Explanation NTFS could not write data to the transaction log. This could affect the ability of NTFS to stop or roll back the operations for which the transaction data could not be written. NTFS could not write data because of one or more of the following reasons: I/O requests issued by the file system to the disk subsystem might not have been completed successfully. Thanks, Ash

Ash108 · Answer

hiya, i tried that by using the manufacturers drive tester utility, and the drive passes all tests with flying colours! SMART test also shows nothing abnormal....either the problem will gradually get worse on the hard drive level and then show up on these tests or it is a windows problem....   any other ideas anyone?   cheers

ejn63 · Answer

Boot, F12, extended diagnostics on hard drive.

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