I recently unpacked my pc from roughly a year of non-use (just sitting) and now I'm getting errors and freezes constantly on what was a clean machine. In the event viewer I have a ton of "bad block" errors, so I'm planning on running a defrag/diskcheck combo after work today.
My main question is this, I know corruption can occur during long periods of non-use with HDDs, and assuming the drive itself isn't failing mechanically, can this be fixed with disk check, or a full reformat/reinstall? Id like to avoid buying a program like spinrite since I could just buy a new data III drive for the same cost and upgrade. Thanks for any advice.
My main question is this, I know corruption can occur during long periods of non-use with HDDs, and assuming the drive itself isn't failing mechanically, can this be fixed with disk check, or a full reformat/reinstall? Id like to avoid buying a program like spinrite since I could just buy a new data III drive for the same cost and upgrade. Thanks for any advice.