Is my HDD about to die?

Dimitrov96

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I own a Lenovo z580 and recently, once or twice a day while I'm using the laptop it would give me the clicking of death and every possible process stops responding, I usually hard reset the computer and then the first time I boot it after that it doesn't recognise any hdd. One or two restarts and its running fine as new again. I ran windows error checking, crystaldiskinfo and also hd tune pro's diagnostics. Shows about 47 degrees under full load and good condition on the hdd, it also didn't find any bad sectors, runs at about 80-90 mb/s read speed ( The hdd is 5400 rpm ). Could this be an os or bios related problem or the hdd is actually dying, despite the diagnostics showing no sign of that. I'm using Win 10 Enterprise.
 
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nothing you can do with the actual drive except replace it.

you can try to make an image of your drive with paragon rescue kit as long as the drive doesn't stall while you are making the image. then you can put the image back on the new drive and get going where you left off. you can put the recovery kit to a usb and boot into it. i use it all the time. saved me a number of times.

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/rk-free/

Dimitrov96

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Thank you for the quick response. Is there anything I can do or as I've written in the title, should I expect the hard drive to suddenly stop working? I'm really clueless.
 
nothing you can do with the actual drive except replace it.

you can try to make an image of your drive with paragon rescue kit as long as the drive doesn't stall while you are making the image. then you can put the image back on the new drive and get going where you left off. you can put the recovery kit to a usb and boot into it. i use it all the time. saved me a number of times.

https://www.paragon-software.com/home/rk-free/

 
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