Is my HDD defective?

Praedos

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Hello. About 2 days ago I put my new HDD into my rig , and recently have been experiencing some freezing issues. To be specific, at times I'll be running programs, such as recently installing Geforce experience. I'd try clicking to open it up, but when attempting to click anything on the task bar I'd get the loading circle as opposed to my mouse, and if I try to open any other applications/exit any nothing happens. When I attempt to bring up task manager, nothing happens, and I have to wait about 30-45 secs for it to unfreeze itself, opening up Task manager,etc. This occurs randomly, as mainly when I'm running/downloading something, and not as frequent however it's presence on a drive that is not even 2 days old raises concern.

I reinstalled Windows 7 again yesterday, as well my mobo drivers, and I'm in the process of updating my video drivers. I did not experience this on my older HDD, and granted I reinstalled everything I'm ruling out it's Windows. That been said, is my HDD defective? Thanks.
 
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Seems to me like your hard drive is having a hard time pulling and retrieving data which usually means a faulty drive, since it is a clean install(I assume since you stated a re-install) i would rule out the OS fault at this point.

ldewitt

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When you say freeze does your whole screen lockup and you can move mouse or anything? Or just that when you click a program it freezes and doesn't open and just sits there spinning? If its the second one i'm afraid it is a defective hard drive, because if it completely locks up i would rule that CPU overheat or even RAM giving out on you.
 

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The program doesn't necessarily freeze, and fade out- rather doesn't do anything. I'm able to navigate my cursor throughout the screen, as well capable of clicking, however it yields no results- in addition I would get said spinner if I were to mouse over the taskbar,etc.

And in some cases, I don't know what it's called, but I'd drag a minimized program, and wherever I'd drag it there'd be X amount of copies of it following whatever path it traveled.
 

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Seems to me like your hard drive is having a hard time pulling and retrieving data which usually means a faulty drive, since it is a clean install(I assume since you stated a re-install) i would rule out the OS fault at this point.
 
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