HDD problem (very slow and shows some errors)
I have a WD hard disk - 640 GB. It got pretty full, so i decided to put in another hard disk (maxton - 80 GB). The first one uses SATA and the second one ATA. I connected the second one on a same cable as my dvd rom (dvd master, hdd slave).
My system became very slow, and that hard disk i added is slow as well. Sometimes it opens, sometimes it doesn't, i get "cyclic redundancy check" errors or "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error". And now i got The "Drive H:/ is not formatted" error.
Is this a file system error or is my hard disk dying?
I'm using Windows XP SP3.
(maybe it's important - i used that hard disk on my old computer, and when i bought a new computer, i left the old one in the old computer (OS wasn't installed on it). It has like 4 GBs of somewhere 80GB (it always less than specified).
I have a WD hard disk - 640 GB. It got pretty full, so i decided to put in another hard disk (maxton - 80 GB). The first one uses SATA and the second one ATA. I connected the second one on a same cable as my dvd rom (dvd master, hdd slave).
My system became very slow, and that hard disk i added is slow as well. Sometimes it opens, sometimes it doesn't, i get "cyclic redundancy check" errors or "The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error". And now i got The "Drive H:/ is not formatted" error.
Is this a file system error or is my hard disk dying?
I'm using Windows XP SP3.
(maybe it's important - i used that hard disk on my old computer, and when i bought a new computer, i left the old one in the old computer (OS wasn't installed on it). It has like 4 GBs of somewhere 80GB (it always less than specified).