Can I still save my HDD?

Zrktr85

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About a week ago my pc started to freeze randomly, apparently the disk was at 100% its capacity(Task manager).I looked for some tasks that might be causing a lot of disk usage and I did some stuff about the Search Index, etc. The disk usage dropped considerably... until I encountered a Blue Screen of Death(Critical proccess died), also the % of the "Repairing C: Drive" didn't progress( Waited about 2 hours). I then rebooted and tried to start selecting files I might want to save as a backup but didn't get much done(I know... my bad), and the pc suprisingly froze about once or twice a day for about 1-5 mins the next three days...
Yesterday I booted my pc decided to make the backups, but the pc was just way too slow(Froze around 30% of the time I spent using it, even froze while typing a message and moving .txt files), I managed to delete 230+ GBs from the HDD, after that it stopped freezing snd was way more smooth. So I decided to play a game of Dota... but the game froze, I then tried Proccess Monitor because it showed 100% disk usage when idle, I started another game while running ProcMon wanting to stop collecting whenever the game froze again, the game froze, I paused it and Alt+Tab to check the info but the PC completely froze(Even cursor), so I waited about an hour when I decided to reboot. This time it took about 30 mins to get to the start screen, another 15 to open metro and it never loaded desktop... So I decided to make this post before trying to boot it again.

What should I do?
Will my HDD keep failing even after a formatting?
Can I save files from that HDD?
I was planning on getting an SSD, would booting from it help at all?

Sorry for the long text, I just typed all I remembered just in case of...
 
Solution
Will my HDD keep failing even after a formatting?

Well, seems like a disk issue. However; it could just be corrupt Windows system files. It's worth troubleshooting first.
Do not fill your HD. Windows needs to update and swap files constantly. You should be at least 10% so you can move files around, 15 - 20% is best. I leave my SSD's at 40% free.

Can I save files from that HDD?

Potentially.
Try running in CMD with Admin rights
first;
chkdsk C: /F /R
and reboot the PC. This will take 4 - 5 hours. Leave it alone.

After, run:
scf /scannow
This should repair any missing or damage windows files. Unless, the disk is completely dead.

I was planning on getting an SSD, would booting from it help at all?

Yes, formatting...
Will my HDD keep failing even after a formatting?

Well, seems like a disk issue. However; it could just be corrupt Windows system files. It's worth troubleshooting first.
Do not fill your HD. Windows needs to update and swap files constantly. You should be at least 10% so you can move files around, 15 - 20% is best. I leave my SSD's at 40% free.

Can I save files from that HDD?

Potentially.
Try running in CMD with Admin rights
first;
chkdsk C: /F /R
and reboot the PC. This will take 4 - 5 hours. Leave it alone.

After, run:
scf /scannow
This should repair any missing or damage windows files. Unless, the disk is completely dead.

I was planning on getting an SSD, would booting from it help at all?

Yes, formatting and installing windows to a new drive will resolve your issue. You should be able to copy your files easily, but make sure you the username and password you created match the username and password on the old drive, or you could end up with some tricky permissions issues.
 
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Zrktr85

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Mar 12, 2014
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Potentially.
Try running in CMD with Admin rights
first;
chkdsk C: /F /R
and reboot the PC. This will take 4 - 5 hours. Leave it alone.

After, run:
scf /scannow
This should repair any missing or damage windows files. Unless, the disk is completely dead.

So I was goin to try this, but when I booted it diagnosted my pc and started repairing C Drive, is this exactly the same you wanted me to do or should I still try the chkdsk?

 

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