Is my hard drive failing?

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theminislimshady

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I have noticed a few things that have made me think there is something wrong with my hard drive. First, I had very strange problems with Windows. It was acting very slow and buggy. I had many errors. I decided to do a repair install of windows. After this, I ran a virus scan, trying with a few different antivirus programs. No results. So, I did a fresh, clean install of Windows 7 ultimate. Just a week after the fresh install, I started getting these same errors and blue screens. Just today, I got an error saying BOOTMGR is missing. I used my startup repair CD, and it said that the hard disk errors were repaired, and startup repair fixed the issues. However, I am afraid that this will happen again, like it did on my last installation of windows. Even after a FRESH install, my startup and shutdown times are low. And I do have very fast hardware on my system.

A few things to keep in mind:
This is a brand new motherboard, CPU, and memory.
I have the latest BIOS version (there is only one version of the BIOS out as of today)
This Hard drive is 6-7 years old I believe (Samsung HD501LJ 500GB)
I have tried changing some BIOS settings, and also resetting the BIOS
I have run SFC /SCANNOW command
I have tried running in safe mode
I have tried booting with nothing except for the keyboard and mouse plugged in (which are USB)
I have all the latest drivers installed

So could the problem be that my hard drive is finally dying?

System specs:
500W PSU
Samsung HD501LJ Hard drive
8GB Crucial Ballistix sport ram, DDR3 1600MHz
AMD FX-6300 CPU
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Motherboard
EVGA Geforce GTX 650 1GB Graphics card
Microsoft USB wireless keyboard/mouse
 
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drtweak
Download and run the Crystal Disk Info in my signature. Install it and come back with what it says (good, caution, bad) and what is listed in the list as going bad (Reallocated sector count, Pending Sector Count, unrecoverable sector count ect.
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drtweak

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Download and run the Crystal Disk Info in my signature. Install it and come back with what it says (good, caution, bad) and what is listed in the list as going bad (Reallocated sector count, Pending Sector Count, unrecoverable sector count ect.
 
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TyrOd

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I understand that ultimately it could be only logical corruption, but when the OS says "hard disk errors were repaired" it's talking about reallocating sectors due to read errors/bit error defects.

Considering this is a 6+ year old drive, there's nothing crystaldisk will tell you about the stability of this drive that you don't already know from these symptoms, though it won't hurt to run it of course.
 
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drtweak

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It can tell you exactly how many reallcoated sectors there are or if you have Bad or Pending sector count as well.

My roommates laptop was doing same exact thing. Check disk on startup every time and getting slower and slower. Ran Crystal Disk and what do you know, 20 Pending Sector Counts which to me are just as bad as Uncorrectable Sector Counts.

I have people with other issues like this and the hard drive was in good condition as well. Sometimes windows gets screwed up, and even though it looks like it shutdown properly it didn't and causes errors that give me the same exact symptoms as a failing hard drive as well.
 
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TyrOd

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True, it never hurts to run crystal disk or something similar to check.
 
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