Symptoms of dying hard disk ?

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Hey peeps,

I have a laptop, an i5 laptop with 4gb ram. I am having severe performance issues.
First of all, my laptop takes around half hour to fully boot. Then after every 5-10 minutes, it freezes for a second or less, windows explorer stops responding and windows media player lags alot.
I am guessing a bad hdd. I have checked my hdd with HDTune and Crystaldiskinfo, both of them are showing warning however the hdd have passed all the test i throw at it.

I am dead confused here as what to do next. I am thinking about replacing my hdd but i am not even sure whats the problem. I have read somewhere on the internet that it can also be a ram issue and one more thing, I have not experienced any bsod as they say it is one the biggest symptom of a dying hdd.

I have also ran chkdsk (didnt got any bad sector) and have cleaned (deleting partitons and shit) re-installed windows multiple times, still no luck.

Any help will be aprreciated. Peace
 
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jsmithepa

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If you are not exaggerating, I don't know why you are still sitting here posting on forums instead of running out to the nearest Best Buys and just throw them the credit card!

So fine it passes the tests, but what do they say about speed? Do you know what HD speed is normal for you?

Everything u said so far points to a very slow, but apparently no corrupted data (yet) HD.

Temp? Does it boot faster when cold than warm?
 
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k1114

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Throw a credit card at the issue when he doesn't know what the issue is? Everything he said does not point to a slow hdd. Actually most everything is saying it's not the hdd. He could just be overheating, it's throttling causing all around slowness hence nothing to do with the hdd. That wouldn't cause bsod or crashing so is just as reasonable. There isn't much info but you don't jump the gun and tunnel vision on a single possibility.

Use hwmonitor or something that sees all component temps. Go directly to the components. Never try to guess from ambient or feeling.
 
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the screenshots of hd tune and crystaldisk

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Finstar

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I've had some similar experiences (only in much smaller scale) running a old slow hdds on a i5 4460 desktop. Failing hdd doesn't need to have anything wrong with it's disk, the motor running the disk could be also at fault. Anyway, upgrading a old hdd to a new ssd is definitely not a bad idea even if the old hdd isn't broken.
 
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k1114

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No one said it had to be the disk but in this case his is obviously failing with sector count tripping smart. Most hdd failures is the actuating arm and shows no signs or warnings. If the motor was going slower or had issues not running right than that would definitely trigger smart. That would trip spin retry count and spin up time. That can also cause read and write errors, calibration, multiple other vendor specific parameters.

If the hdd is causing the slowness or not, it should be backed up and replaced because reallocated sectors is a sign of imminent failure. If it doesn't fix the slowness then we can continue troubleshooting the issue. If it is problem solved.
 
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