re: Possibly failing hard drive Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:57 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Devarshi Patel (22 messages posted) I've still got a lot of questions, thanks in advance for the help. Would a clean install of Windows 7 do anything for the hard drive or would I have to replace it completely? Also, any chance it's not the hard drive? I'm not getting any weird noises from it and it is still pretty fast. I also ran CHKDSK again on startup and got no errors. Is there any good software out there that is not made by the manufacturer itself (DiskCheckUp, Active Smart)? I'd like to run one of them first. Would I need to backup before using one of these? On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 10:20 am, MartinM wrote: > >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: re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 10:20 am) Responses to this message: re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 2:00 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (barry: Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 8:20 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