re: Possibly failing hard drive Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 10:20 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by MartinM (5143 messages posted) Yes, it probably is a failing HDD, which is completely not preventable:-) Next steps: 1. Backup your data before doing anything else and do so very regularly in case the HDD turns up its toes. 2. Get the disk manufacturer's diagnostics (download form their website - free) and run that. 3. Quit defragmenting - it serves no purpose other than to wear out your HDD ! 4. Updating drivers is nothing to do with your issue. You might also look in Event Viewer to see if there is a rash of HDD errors. If there is, just go ahead and replace the HDD, no point in hanging around waiting for it to fail. Written in response to: Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 9:35 am) Responses to this message: re: Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:57 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 9:35 am) re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 10:20 am) re: Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 12:57 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 2:00 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 3:50 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 4:23 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (barry: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 8:20 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (Larry: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 11:05 am) re: Possibly failing hard drive (barry: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 8:24 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum