Is My HDD Failing?

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Hey guys I have a 1 year old Seagate Sata HDD in my pc.

Yesterday i got a computer shop to install me a new Gpu (cus im a noob) anyway that guy in the shop said he had to move some things around because the new GPU was longer than the older one.

Ever since i got my pc back i can now hear my HDD scratching when it reads data (quite often) it isnt too loud i can only hear it if im sitting next to the PC.

Should i be worried about a failing HDD or is it because he moved stuff around that im hearing it more?

I have run some disc checks and it says everythig is fine. I am currently backing up the whole drive as we speak. Just incase of failiure

Please let me know what you think?
 
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This a possibility! The new GPU is virtually silent. Just trying to make sure i am not panicking over nothing xD
 
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My other question is that should i be hearing it often?? I can sometimes hear it for a few seconds then it will go silent. Is it normal for it to be accessing data so much? Sorry if im a noob xD
 
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Currently doing a full chkdsk now! Been on stage 4 for a while but mo errors so far... This looks like its gonna take a while though
 
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Normally the noises from hard drives are when you are doing many IO intensive tasks such as looking at files and opening programs. It should be more silent when not using the computer. In any case it is not a bad idea to back up your hard drive just in case, but that should be done even if it's not failing.
 
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So i did the Disc Check and it came back with no bad sectors and finished in about 2 hours... do you think i will be fine???

Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-Wininit
Date: 22/12/2012 12:12:48
Event ID: 1001
Task Category: None
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: Jenks-PC
Description:


Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.


A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
477696 file records processed.

File verification completed.
957 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

0 EA records processed.

92 reparse records processed.

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
585678 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.

0 unindexed files recovered.

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
477696 file SDs/SIDs processed.

Cleaning up 67 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 67 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 67 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
53992 data files processed.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
36635112 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

976657407 KB total disk space.
546977776 KB in 379360 files.
206056 KB in 53993 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
610863 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
428862712 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244164351 total allocation units on disk.
107215678 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 4a 07 00 cc 9c 06 00 59 b5 0b 00 00 00 00 00 .J......Y.......
85 d7 00 00 5c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....\...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Wininit" Guid="{206f6dea-d3c5-4d10-bc72-989f03c8b84b}" EventSourceName="Wininit" />
<EventID Qualifiers="16384">1001</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>4</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Opcode>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2012-12-22T12:12:48.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>28773</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Jenks-PC</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data>

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.


A disk check has been scheduled.
Windows will now check the disk.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
477696 file records processed.

File verification completed.
957 large file records processed.

0 bad file records processed.

0 EA records processed.

92 reparse records processed.

CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
585678 index entries processed.

Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.

0 unindexed files recovered.

CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
477696 file SDs/SIDs processed.

Cleaning up 67 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 67 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 67 unused security descriptors.
Security descriptor verification completed.
53992 data files processed.

CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal...
36635112 USN bytes processed.

Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

976657407 KB total disk space.
546977776 KB in 379360 files.
206056 KB in 53993 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
610863 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
428862712 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
244164351 total allocation units on disk.
107215678 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 4a 07 00 cc 9c 06 00 59 b5 0b 00 00 00 00 00 .J......Y.......
85 d7 00 00 5c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ....\...........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts.
</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
 
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