Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete. it might my hdd got dead

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Last week I got critical service failed so I format the drive that have win 10 and left the another drive that have my games in it and installed win 10 again everything was working until after 4 days it gave me this error Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete so I did automatic repair form win10 bot usb then I went to sleep then later it restart to the win10 instaltion window so i restarted the pc and it give me the same problem( Repairing disk errors. This might take over an hour to complete)
So it might my hdd got dead or something else
it's been 3 years having this hdd


i will get new hdd later after finishing work







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Yeah, it's very likely that the disk is dying. Does it have any important files on it?

Am I right that both the initial failure, and the disk error warnings, both occurred with the OS installed to the same HDD? There are a bunch of diagnostic tools you can use to assess the health of the drive. But they're not foolproof, and I wouldn't be trusting a drive that has failed under two installations with anything more than a temporary store for junk data.

Buying a new drive and fresh install is a good idea.

If you want to spend some time investigating the suspicious drive once the new one is up and running HD Tune is a good place to start, with the SMART data and a low level error check.
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Yeah, it's very likely that the disk is dying. Does it have any important files on it?

Am I right that both the initial failure, and the disk error warnings, both occurred with the OS installed to the same HDD? There are a bunch of diagnostic tools you can use to assess the health of the drive. But they're not foolproof, and I wouldn't be trusting a drive that has failed under two installations with anything more than a temporary store for junk data.

Buying a new drive and fresh install is a good idea.

If you want to spend some time investigating the suspicious drive once the new one is up and running HD Tune is a good place to start, with the SMART data and a low level error check.
 
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your right its the same HDD


 
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I think so. But it depends on your situation, your disposable income, and how much you value your time.

There's quite a high likelihood that the drive is dying.
You could run a bunch of diagnostics (I can help you do that if you want) to check out the drive. They will probably expose further errors and confirm the drive is dying... in which case you buy a new drive.
There is a chance however, that everything looks fine. But then what do you do? Sometimes drives look fine on SMART data and low-level error checks but are in fact still dying. There's no way of knowing for sure. What I'm saying is that there's enough suspicion over your drive that I wouldn't trust it anymore. Even if it comes back with a clean bill of heath from low level testing... I'm not wasting my time installing a fresh copy of Windows on that drive when there's a reasonable chance it's just going to die. I'm going to go and buy a new drive because I'd rather spend that money than take the risk.
So for me, it's not really worth investing the drive much... I'm not going to trust it anyway. I might chuck it in a PC later and check it out, but I'm not trusting it for a system drive every again.

If the risk of data loss and your time wasted is not such a big deal for you, you might like to spend some time checking out the drive. If it looks okay, you might be prepared to try again with a fresh windows install and take the risk. The drive might be fine... or it might fail completely and you'll have to buy a new one anyway. You decide whether the risk/time is worth it for you.
 
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so i need to connect hdd to another pc to use HDtune health
 
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That's your new drive? Is that right?

Once you've build your fresh OS on that new drive, if you're interested in checking out the old drive you can use HD_Tune and link a screen-shot of the for "health" tab here as @SkyNetRising suggests.
You can also run the error scan.
 
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i used Data Lifeguard Diagnostic in my old hdd it gave me too many bad sectors error
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So as we suspected, the old drive was dying and belongs in the bin. It happens unfortunately. Aside from having backups of important data, there's nothing you can really do about it.


Glad you got it all sorted.
 
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