Hello,
I was wondering if BSODs and Slow load times are common issues surrounding a death of a hard drive. My current HDD is a SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 ST1000DM005/HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive in which I have had for the past 4 years. I just recently encountered an issue where a driver failed on me. When I tried to boot after a BSOD it would say "Boot Image is corrupt" and I would have to restart several times to get to safe mode. I eventually fixed my issue by getting a system restore and it appears to work fine now. My question is: Is it time to think about updating my HDD to a SSD and new OS? I am currently running windows vista 64 SP2.
*UPDATE*
Still have not replaced the hard drive because I am able to get the computer to barely work. When the computer cold starts, it will not get me past the BIOS. It sometimes stops at "Initializing USB Controllers" or most of the time stops at "Auto Detecting Sata 4 ..". Here are some pictures of what I am talking about: USB and Sata. I did unplug my HDD (Sata port 1) and Disc drive (Sata 4) and after like two restarts it will give me the appropriate "insert hard drive and restart". So, my new question is: Could this be a MOBO issue that I have on my hands? Can a Hard drive mess with the BIOS in this fashion?
I just don't want to go buy a new OS and hard drive combo if it is a faulty MOBO. If it is in fact a MOBO, I would just buy a new computer anyways.
I was wondering if BSODs and Slow load times are common issues surrounding a death of a hard drive. My current HDD is a SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 ST1000DM005/HD103SJ 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive in which I have had for the past 4 years. I just recently encountered an issue where a driver failed on me. When I tried to boot after a BSOD it would say "Boot Image is corrupt" and I would have to restart several times to get to safe mode. I eventually fixed my issue by getting a system restore and it appears to work fine now. My question is: Is it time to think about updating my HDD to a SSD and new OS? I am currently running windows vista 64 SP2.
*UPDATE*
Still have not replaced the hard drive because I am able to get the computer to barely work. When the computer cold starts, it will not get me past the BIOS. It sometimes stops at "Initializing USB Controllers" or most of the time stops at "Auto Detecting Sata 4 ..". Here are some pictures of what I am talking about: USB and Sata. I did unplug my HDD (Sata port 1) and Disc drive (Sata 4) and after like two restarts it will give me the appropriate "insert hard drive and restart". So, my new question is: Could this be a MOBO issue that I have on my hands? Can a Hard drive mess with the BIOS in this fashion?
I just don't want to go buy a new OS and hard drive combo if it is a faulty MOBO. If it is in fact a MOBO, I would just buy a new computer anyways.
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