Computer freezes randomly or when l started up a game

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For two days now my pc has frozen randomly and l have to do a hard restart. I just tried to play overwatch a few minutes ago and it froze after 5 minutes in the game. Once or twice yesterday he said critical died error with a blue screen and sometimes said repairing C: drive but failed to repair. I tried using windows 10 drive error tool but when it scanned the drive no errors came up.

Anyone have an idea whats wrong?
 
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If you can put the old (corrupted) drive in your PC, with the drive which now contains all your files set as the boot drive, you will hopefully see the old drive in disk management. Since you don't have anything on this old drive that you want to keep you can format it. This will remove all the data and existing partitions and will give you a usable disk. If that doesn't work you have a faulty hard drive

If the corruption is caused by faults i.e. hard drive failure try using the seagate tool and see what it says
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Make sure all your critical data is backed up. Check your disk by downloading a suitable tool from your disk manufacturer's website. Personally I would do a clean install of Win 10, which would wipe the disk. However if you feel compelled to keep your files try a reset instead.
Also check your RAM, using Memtest if no problems with your disk are found and the Win 10 clean install/reset doesn't solve the problem.
 
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Cloning drive could clone the problem depending on the underlying problem I would think. You might want to research that further.

Can you fit the spare drive in your PC as a secondary drive? Once set up you could copy all your precious data to it. I would remove the spare drive after you have secured your data, just in case something goes wrong. Then do a clean install. Make sure you know your product keys for WIN 10 and other software. I use Belarc Advisor which tells you what your keys are. Print its output for safekeeping.
 
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Alright l don't have a big enough usb to download windows 10 and a very slow internet connection with only 2 to 3 mb per second so l tried using the refresh windows tool but now I'm getting an error saying it was unable to run the tool and the error code is 0x8007001F - 0x20016
 
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ahhh i'm tired of trying to find a solution to reset the hard drive without nuking it or waiting a full day for windows 10 in install on a usb so l just used the other hard drive(which already had windows 10 install) and moved all my files l wanted to keep to this one.
 
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If you can put the old (corrupted) drive in your PC, with the drive which now contains all your files set as the boot drive, you will hopefully see the old drive in disk management. Since you don't have anything on this old drive that you want to keep you can format it. This will remove all the data and existing partitions and will give you a usable disk. If that doesn't work you have a faulty hard drive

If the corruption is caused by faults i.e. hard drive failure try using the seagate tool and see what it says
 
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