Is my hard drive failing?

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jaffaf

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Heres some backstory:

A few months ago my PC started to crash. Blue screens, disk read errors after restart, general slowness and lag. Eventually it got so bad and I reinstalled windows 7.

After I did this, it ran fine for a few months. Now the symptoms are re appearing - I've already had one blue screen, the PC constantly crashes when i'm in games (sometimes the whole PC freezes, sometimes I can alt tab out and nothing responds) and the occasional disk read error. It often crashes during loading screens in games that end up taking much longer.

I've heard these are problems to do with the hard drive, but surely the problems would have persisted after I reinstalled windows if that was the case? Anyway help is appreciated, here is my specs

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
AMD Athlon II X3 455 Processor (3 CPUs) 3.3ghz
AMD Radeon HD 6670
4GB RAM
 
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Strange. Bluescreenview should find any blue screen error logs(memory dumps) for sure.

You can underclock the cpu in the bios. It would be strange to see that as an issue only because those are stock speeds for that unit.

The power supply information is printed on the sticker of the power supply it self(you have to remove the side panel and look at it.).

If you have never been in the system, You may have some dust build up causing heat issues as well.

HWmon can show you your temperature(it is not perfect, but works with many boards/cpus/hard drives and video cards).
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I'd under-clock the cpu, to see if the problem still exist, the BSODs sometimes occure for insufficient voltage whether high clock or low CPU voltage

if u have ur win7 disk, put it and start installing new windows but dont, just go at the moment u choose which drive to install, if the hdd is dying, windows will tell u exactly ur hdd is dying get a back up soon,

the message appears when u just choose the drive
another way is when u check disk (in properties...) it'll give u errors, or simply hangs in middle of loading

a dying hdd makes some clicking noise sometimes, specially when u're transferring files or reading any,
also when u boot ur system, u'll notice ur hdd is starting like a generator or sth,

i've lost 2 40gb hdd and one 500gb, there were the symptoms

 
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Try checking your disk for errors. It may not be failing outright, but it may have bad sectors. First, run with Automatically Fix System Errors option (checking Scan for and Attempt Recovery of Bad Sectors will result in much longer scan, so don't check it for now, you can do it later), and see if there are any bad sectors in report.
 
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jaffaf

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Tried bluescreenview, unless i'm using it wrong (it said it would automatically scan when you open the program) it didn't find any crashes

Ran a disk check, musn't of found anything

How would I go about underclocking my cpu/ checking what power supply I have?
 
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Strange. Bluescreenview should find any blue screen error logs(memory dumps) for sure.

You can underclock the cpu in the bios. It would be strange to see that as an issue only because those are stock speeds for that unit.

The power supply information is printed on the sticker of the power supply it self(you have to remove the side panel and look at it.).

If you have never been in the system, You may have some dust build up causing heat issues as well.

HWmon can show you your temperature(it is not perfect, but works with many boards/cpus/hard drives and video cards).
 
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