Disk Usage 100%. Think I previously had found bad sectors. What does this mean?

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danielking4684

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I have a build with an FX 6350 AMD and a gigabyte mobo, and a Western Digital 1 TB hdd. Windows 10 OS crashed at one point and would not boot, so I reinstalled Windows. Now that I use it, it is difficultly slow, intermittently in fact, not always INTERMITTENLY, IN FACT NOT VERY OFTEN BUT ONLY AT TIMES WHEN I ATTEMPT CERTAIN THINGS. Some times, I will try to perform a task, such as clearing data from Chrome, and it will take a long time; I check task manager and disk usage is 100%. I think when I went to reinstall, I found a few bad sectors. Does this mean my hard drive is reaching the end of its life?
Should I move on to a new drive?

It s about 4 years old I believe.

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Try running Crystal Disk Info and see what that says. But yeah in general, bad sectors mean - time to back up your data and replace that drive.
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I was considering using that 06 drive as my primary. Guess thats a bit risky isnt it?
Yea think I probably should pass on that. I have a newer drive to use to install the OS to. I also do have a good external without too many hours for backup. The western digital that did crash had nearly 12000 hours of use. but per only 260 power cycles. That means on average the drive ran 45 hours per use. The owner leaves his rig running idle too much I think.
 
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Per the results of Chkdsk... is it common for these problems to be intermittent and not always show?
I am under the impression of the 100% disk usage, and that I encountered that critical error, that what the ckdsk is telling me doesn't change the fact that the drive is likely about to die. Would you agree man?
And thanks for the advice so far
 
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Yeah, the fact that programs (in this case Crystal) are slow to open, if at all, is just more proof that the disk is not in a good way.

 
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100% disk usage can be any of a number of things - issue with the drive's health, malware, device drivers needing to be updated...even Windows search itself can be a reason for 100% usage
 
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