hard drive faulty?

[ultimate]

Hey i got some trouble with my computer
lately, i had my second hard drive (first one for system is a ssd) suddenly disappeared from explorer.exe
then i formated and re-installed a fresh windows 7 (64 bits) on it (on ssd)
issue gone but i got another issue coming.
now i get explorer.exe horribly slow, that damn task bar never ends of loading.
some icons cant been seen from explorer. got just a white standard icon.
i highly suspected my second hard drive for being faulty, then i disabled it from system and as if by magic, it became again fully normal.
i ve checked my health's hard drives on crystaldiskinfo, apparently, health statut shows nothing wrong
is my hard drive faulty?
can i fix it through any drive repairing softwares?

 

[II-zOoLoGy-II]

Alright, so... your problem isn't exactly clear... Help us understand this more clearly.

You had Windows running on your HDD, until it was no longer accessible in Windows? Was it detected in your BIOS?

Then you installed it on your SSD and disabled the HDD and performance returned to normal?

You ran diagnostic tools that came back normal; have you began troubleshooting anything else?

Try another sata cable, another sata port, another power cable, another HDD, etc, etc.

Run diagnostics on both your memory and cpu (memtest for memory, prime95, intel burn in for your cpu) ; see where that gets you.

 

[ultimate]

windows always been installed on ssd, actually its just running safely until i do reach hard drive icons through explorer
after some actions (clicking, viewing and searching files), taskbar becomes suddenly very slow and loads until i close explorer
when i disable suspected hard drive, it will run pretty nice.
diagnostics through some hard disk software show nothing normal, that hard drive is all right

 

[Infinital-NG]

Try the above poster's suggestion of a new sata cable/power/sata location. Not sure what diagnostic tool you ran, but what brand hard drive is it? You should use their diagnostic tool for it (ie, Seatools for Seagate.) To me it sounds like something is failing.

Most HD diagnostic tools will just tell you it's bad. Most don't offer ways to fix. You can run a chkdsk /f on that drive to see if it helps any.

Acronis Disk Monitor is a nice little utility that runs in system tray that monitors disk status. Every machine that comes out of my office has that utility installed. It's saved the bacon enough times to be worth the free download.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.acronis.com%2Fhomecomputing%2Fproducts%2Fdrive-monitor%2F&ei=JlDHUOnTGdGy0QGu04DADQ&usg=AFQjCNFo9Xg6oSAv6jP3wYlhMM2k79Su5A&sig2=d2sP0OJ25WmkQrtCB7b9nA

 

[Grayfox]

Run a chkdsk on the drive you think is bad.

Click start>type in CMD and right click and run it as admin.
In the CMD prompt type in chkdsk X: /f /r /b

X: = the drive letter.

 

[ultimate]

i do not suspected this one, another suspected hard drive is just below ssd on the list
it shows nothing wrong on that one