re: Possibly failing hard drive
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Devarshi Patel
(29 messages posted)
The manufacturer's software recommends that I back up my data beforehand because
it could be lost during the process. I didn't want to take that risk. How likely
is it that anyways?
So what's the end game here? If the results from the diagnostic tool say that my
hard drive is failing, I back up my data and get a new hard drive and install windows
again?
Sorry for all the questions, and again thanks for all the help.
On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 2:00 pm, MartinM wrote:
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>Would a clean install of Windows 7 do anything for the hard drive ?
>
>The software make absolutely no difference to the mechanical state and performance
>of the HDD.
>
>Also, any chance it's not the hard drive? I'm not getting any weird noises from
>it and it is still pretty fast.
>
>Possible but unlikely, in the end you'll never know until it fails, but you have
>all the symptoms of a failing drive.
>
>Its not 100% certain to be the HDD, just probable. You often don't get noises or
>slowness.
>
>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.
>
>The manufacturer's software is best - why are you trying to avoid it ?
>
>Would I need to backup before using one of these?
>
>No.
>
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