Pc freeze's/lags, i hear a clicking sound(from my hard drive i believe)

So i naturally thought my hard drive is breaking down or something, then i tried messing around with the connectors (trying other ones etc.) now my pc doesn't seem to freeze up but it lags pretty bad, for example if i play an mp3 it sometimes repeats one seconds material three times etc. it still freezes up about every 3 seconds for like 1/3 of a second. So i downloaded "HDD Health" which shows your hard drives health and it shows it's at "77%(good)"
I heard it might actually be a power supply problem? Now i'm really confused. Please help :cry

 

I think it might be worth doing the HD manufacturer's HD diagnostic using the Long/Extended test. I've had a HD that passed the short test but had a few bad sectors that were causing the clicking; running the long test fixed it.

 

I scanned it with ES-Tool and it showed no errors, said it was working perfectly (did the extended scan). Then i scanned it with software i got from the majorgeeks website "HDD Scan" and i did the smart scan and it says that apparently there's a problem with the "Reallocation sector count" and the "Reallocation event count":

HDDScan S.M.A.R.T. Report
Model: SAMSUNG SP0802N
Firmware: TK100-24
Serial: S00JJ30X253162
LBA: 156368016

Report By: HDDScan for Windows version 3.3
Report Date: 2010.12.07 22:45:04


Num Attribute Name Value Worst Raw(hex) Threshold

001 Raw Read Error Rate 100 100 0000000000-0004 051

003 Spin Up Time 078 056 0000000000-1080 000

004 Start/Stop Count 091 091 0000000000-26B6 000

005 Reallocation Sector Count 100 100 0000000000-0001 010 (marked with an exclamation point signifying an error i guess)

007 Seek Error Rate 253 253 0000000000-0000 051

008 Seek time Perfomance 092 092 0000000000-2352 000

009 Power-On Hours Count 098 098 0000000016-8769 000

010 Spin Retry Count 253 253 0000000000-0000 049

012 Device Power Cycle Count 095 095 0000000000-14F3 000

194 HDA Temperature 163 100 25 C 000

195 Hardware ECC Recovered 100 100 00000005E2-013C 000

196 Reallocation Event Count 100 100 0000000000-0001 000 (also marked with an exclamation point)

197 Current Pending Errors Count 253 253 0000000000-0000 010

198 Uncorrectable Errors Count 253 253 0000000000-0000 010

199 UltraDMA CRC Errors 100 100 0000000000-0000 051

200 Write Error Rate 100 100 0000000000-0000 051

201 Soft Read Error Rate 100 100 0000000000-0000 051


any info on this? :/

 

err i can't edit my last post anymore?
well anyway i found some info on wikipedia:
Reallocated Sectors Count
Lower
Count of reallocated sectors. When the hard drive finds a read/write/verification error, it marks this sector as "reallocated" and transfers data to a special reserved area (spare area). This process is also known as remapping, and "reallocated" sectors are called remaps. Unfortunately, on modern operating systems, such as Windows XP and onwards, "bad blocks" cannot be found while testing the surface, as this feature was removed. However, 3rd-party applications such as "HD Tune" and "CHIP SBIANCAMENTO" can reveal bad sectors across the entire surface, even on partitions that are hidden. Also, as the count of reallocated sectors increases, the read/write speed tends to decrease, unless the bad sectors are manually repositioned to a hidden partition, although the boot sector is always at the start of the disk, so if damage is in that area, the drive is only useful as a redundant backup drive. The raw value normally represents a count of the count of bad sectors that have been found and remapped. Thus, the higher the attribute value, the more sectors the drive has had to reallocate.

and

Reallocation Event Count
Lower
Count of remap operations. The raw value of this attribute shows the total count of attempts to transfer data from reallocated sectors to a spare area. Both successful & unsuccessful attempts are counted.[20]


so my question would be... is there a way to manually relocate a sector?

 

actually i don't hear tapping anymore O_O. But it's still laggy.

 

I don't know much about the actual threshold values except what I've read here in the fifth post. It appears you are within normal limits with 20 reallocations out of a normal limit of 100.

The clicking sound that you here is it repeated clicking? I'm trying to remember but on the drive I was talking about earlier, my symptoms were that it was like the drive was turning on and off fairly often but not a mechanical scraping sound but more the controller was turning it on and off for no apparent reason. It was not repeated just every 30 seconds or so it was like it was powering up and down. It went on for about 3 months before I did a diagnostic and let it repair errors and it disappeared.

I don't know what to say. It wasn't a controller that ended up fixing my drive but the diagnostic. You already tried the Samsung diagnostic. If the drive is a few years old it is probably best to consider getting a replacement. All things mechanical have a lifespan and hard drives don't give a lot of warning before crashing.

 

Ok. Thanks guys, i really learned something from this Gonna get myself a new hard drive i suppose