[SOLVED] Are these problems all HDD- related ?

[Dylan O'Neal]

hi everyone
months ago i started having problems involving blue screens on my win10 (the error code from to Memory Management to System Service Exception or even Faulty Hardware Corrupted Page) weeks ago, another problem started, that being ISDone.dll/unArc.dll returning an error (unable to connect to disk) when trying to install some games, and also the majority of large files i try to download come out to be corrupted (when i know the source of the file ins't corrupt itself). On every start the computer tries to do a repair on the system files, sometimes when the windows has already started a notification pops up suggesting me to restart the PC to repair corrupt system files(even when i do, the message will pop up on the next start).

some things i've tried:

• reinstalling the windows (on the first attempts it worked out, but after some blues screens and eventually other reinstallations it stopped solving the DLLs problems)
• install the unarc.dll and isdone.dll from the internet (won't solve)
• trying to register those dll using powershell (error message about the files not being compatible)
• using sfc /scannow, at first it would show the corrupted files were found and repaired (but yet, i still had problems involving the DLLs mentioned) but after some time (and reinstallations of the windows) using the command, the "scannow" will show: "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them".
• i also have used chkdsk /r /f .

my setup:
Ryzen 5 1600AF (bought 1 year ago)
RX 570 4gb (bought 2 years ago)
1x Crucial Ballistix 8GB RAM (3 years ago)
1x HyperX 8GB RAM (almost 2 year ago)
1TB HD (can't remember the brand) (3 years ago)

what i think (i'm stupid):

i think it's probably related to the Hard Disk, since the majority of system related to a failing HD are showing up (Blue Screens, Corrupted Files, Windoes Freezing, Taking too long to start up, etc)
I've trying using one RAM at a time, and yet i still had problems, so since i think it's very hard for the two RAM being broken, my suspicions falls to the HDD.

 

[CountMike]

hi everyone
months ago i started having problems involving blue screens on my win10 (the error code from to Memory Management to System Service Exception or even Faulty Hardware Corrupted Page) weeks ago, another problem started, that being ISDone.dll/unArc.dll returning an error (unable to connect to disk) when trying to install some games, and also the majority of large files i try to download come out to be corrupted (when i know the source of the file ins't corrupt itself). On every start the computer tries to do a repair on the system files, sometimes when the windows has already started a notification pops up suggesting me to restart the PC to repair corrupt system files(even when i do, the message will pop up on the next start).

some things i've tried:
reinstalling the windows (on the first attempts it worked out, but after some blues screens and eventually other reinstallations it stopped solving the DLLs problems)
install the unarc.dll and isdone.dll from the internet (won't solve)
trying to register those dll using powershell (error message about the files not being compatible)
using sfc /scannow, at first it would show the corrupted files were found and repaired (but yet, i still had problems involving the DLLs mentioned) but after some time (and reinstallations of the windows) using the command, the "scannow" will show: Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.
i also have used chkdsk /r /f .


my setup:
Ryzen 5 1600AF (bought 1 year ago)
RX 570 4gb (bought 2 years ago)
1x Crucial Ballistix 8GB RAM (3 years ago)
1x HyperX 8GB RAM (almost 2 year ago)
1TB HD (can't remember the brand) (3 years ago)

what i think (i'm stupid):

i think it's probably related to the Hard Disk, since the majority of system related to a failing HD are showing up (Blue Screens, Corrupted Files, Windoes Freezing, Taking too long to start up, etc)
I've trying using one RAM at a time, and yet i still had problems, so since i think it's very hard for the two RAM being broken, my suspicions falls to the HD.

Did you check disk health ?

Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring

Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems, predict disk failure.

www.hdsentinel.com

 

[Dylan O'Neal]

Did you check disk health ?

Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring

Monitoring hard disk health and temperature. Test and repair HDD problems, predict disk failure.

www.hdsentinel.com

yes, the software said the hdd's health was at 94%
i also used Windows Memory Diagnostic, didn't find any problems with the RAMs either.

 

[Bob.B]

yes, the software said the hdd's health was at 94%
i also used Windows Memory Diagnostic, didn't found any problem with the RAMs too

Run a pass of crystaldiskinfo and post a screen shot.

 

[Dylan O'Neal]

Run a pass of crystaldiskinfo and post a screen shot.

i was trying to startup the windows, and everytime i did that it would start some automatic disk repair (fixing (c: ) stage ...) and by the end of all that process it would just say "Startup Repair Cannot Repair This Computer", so again i was still having errors, freezing, pc running very slow, trying to repair the disk at every startup, suggesting me to restart, i ended up trying again to clean install windows, and now even though the flash drive i'm using is the same i've always used now i'm getting the following error:
"Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause".

info: "The boot configuration data for your pc is missing or contains errors".

don't have any problems acessing Bios (it also recognizes every hardware i have installed, even the USB flash drive)

i can buy a SSD (which would be an upgrade, in the end) but i want to be sure the source of the problem is the HDD, so i don't "spend money for nothing".

 

[CountMike]

i was trying to startup the windows, and everytime i did that it would start some automatic disk repair (fixing (c: ) stage ...) and by the end of all that process it would just say "Startup Repair Cannot Repair This Computer", so again i was still having errors, freezing, pc running very slow, trying to repair the disk at every startup, suggesting me to restart, i ended up trying again to clean install windows, and now even though the flash drive i'm using is the same i've always used now i'm getting the following error:
"Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause".

info: "The boot configuration data for your pc is missing or contains errors".

don't have any problems acessing Bios (it also recognizes every hardware i have installed, even the USB flash drive)

i can buy a SSD (which would be an upgrade, in the end) but i want to be sure the source of the problem is the HDD, so i don't "spend money for nothing".

Buying an SSD in this age is no "spend money for nothing" in no circumstance. even cheapest ones are at least 400% faster than mechanical drives. Doesn't even matter much the size and type. Large enough to take OS and most important programs and you can still keep a HDD for storage.
As for your HDD, problems could range from file system just being corrupted to (almost)dead due to heads or platters crash. That can happen to variety of causes. Until you properly check it in independent system you can't be sure.