Is my Hard Drive starting to die?

clayestes · Jul 10, 2013

Is my hard drive starting to fail? I have had it for about two years, it is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 ST31000528AS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148433). I have been having problems the last couple of weeks where my screen would go black and I would get BSOD. And I am currently sending in my GPU for an RMA. But my computer does still seem pretty slow. I did a test for the read speeds (see img below)...but my computer seems alot slower than normal. It is better but like last week it would freeze if I was trying to open a Word doc while something else is open and it was very hard to have two diffrent windows, folders etc. open at the same time. And this was after a complete reformat and reinstallation of my OSSo I am thinking about trying to reformat again...and I might just have to buy a whole new hard drive (not that big of deal) anyways, any help or ideas are greatly appreciated! Thanks, Clay

clutchc · Jul 10, 2013

The BSODs could be caused by bad RAM. That is one of the usual suspects. Run memtest for a full pass on each stick by it self in whichever slot the manual says a single stick should be in. The .ISO file will make a bootable disk that you simply put in the optical drive and boot to.
http://www.memtest.org/

clayestes · Jul 15, 2013

clutchc :

Thanks for the suggestion. Sorry I'm just now getting back to you. I did test all if my RAM with neatest 86, and my mobo requires at least 2 sticks if RAM in at a time, but I did test every combination of sticks and ran the test and every test they passed. And I did let it run so each pair passed 2+ times. Also my screen was going black after the post screen, but I am almost positive that was because of my GPU which I rma'ed and it will be here tomorrow. But my hard drive is still being quite slow, and I really think it is about to fail on me. So I am probably going to get a new one this week. And hopefully that works!

Hawkeye22 · Jul 15, 2013

Use crystal disk info, hdtune, speedfan, or some other free utility that can show you the SMART status of your drive. This should give you a general idea of disk health.

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

lonewolf7 · Jul 15, 2013

Hi, you can try this too: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/

This tool has the ability to repair bad sectors.... etc.

The drive is likely going bad, by the way it performs.

Fouchey · Jul 15, 2013

Hawkeye22 :

Yeah I would go with one of these.
Then again it could say your HDD is perfectly fine and it could die tomorrow /: they just give you somewhat of an idea if there is a problem good luck!

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