- Nov 11, 2014
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*Both Hard drives are 500 GB in size, one Western Digital which I had for many years and the newer one, Seagate
Alright, so yesterday night I decided to do a clean install of Windows 7 on my computer, erasing everything on my main C: (Western Digital) drive and backing up important informations on my other hard drive (Seagate, which is new that I bought a couple days back). After installing the OS again on my main C:/ drive, and making a 250 GB partition out of it, my computer was back up and running with a clean version of Windows 7. However, a message popped up claiming that I should backup my files since the drive was failing soon (didn't need to do this since it was a clean install of windows).
I looked for suggestions by Googling and used the Seagate Tools for Windows which claimed that both of my drives passed the test and nothing seemed to be wrong with it. Mind you, before the clean install of the OS this message never appeared, only after doing a real clean install of windows prompt this message (same type of OS as well, 64-bit, Professional).
I don't know what I should do at this point. I'm probably going to run the Western Digital diagnosis when I get home since it IS the WD drive that is failing so Seagate may be biased here. Do you guys think it is something I should be concerned about?
*EDIT: There's also a side effect that's been happening recently. Sometimes when I start my computer, it doesn't boot to Windows 7, instead says something like "Select Boot device and press a key" (though I haven't encountered this error yet during the clean install) and there are also occasional freezes (which is one of main reason why I wanted to clean install). There still freezes during the explorer from time to time on the clean install, but it isn't as bad (max 4 sec).
Alright, so yesterday night I decided to do a clean install of Windows 7 on my computer, erasing everything on my main C: (Western Digital) drive and backing up important informations on my other hard drive (Seagate, which is new that I bought a couple days back). After installing the OS again on my main C:/ drive, and making a 250 GB partition out of it, my computer was back up and running with a clean version of Windows 7. However, a message popped up claiming that I should backup my files since the drive was failing soon (didn't need to do this since it was a clean install of windows).
I looked for suggestions by Googling and used the Seagate Tools for Windows which claimed that both of my drives passed the test and nothing seemed to be wrong with it. Mind you, before the clean install of the OS this message never appeared, only after doing a real clean install of windows prompt this message (same type of OS as well, 64-bit, Professional).
I don't know what I should do at this point. I'm probably going to run the Western Digital diagnosis when I get home since it IS the WD drive that is failing so Seagate may be biased here. Do you guys think it is something I should be concerned about?
*EDIT: There's also a side effect that's been happening recently. Sometimes when I start my computer, it doesn't boot to Windows 7, instead says something like "Select Boot device and press a key" (though I haven't encountered this error yet during the clean install) and there are also occasional freezes (which is one of main reason why I wanted to clean install). There still freezes during the explorer from time to time on the clean install, but it isn't as bad (max 4 sec).
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