Diagnosing A Bad Hard Drive

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sentinel1

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My laptop is an ASUS K53SV Notebook. A few weeks ago Windows 10 started acting odd because it kept slowing down to a crawl and freezing. I thought this was the typical Windows 10 issue and I did what I did before when I had this problem and simply wiped the laptop and reinstalled Windows (it didn't work, I just kept getting stuck at the setup wifi part), I tried this 5 times before I tried installing Windows 7. I experienced the same issue with Win 7, my laptop is unusable because it is too damn slow. I ran CHKDSK and after about 12 hours it got stuck on stage 5 when it was 17% through. Letting it sit didn't do anything so eventually I just shut it down. This is where I am now and the constant slowness and the Check Disk issue leads me to believe there is a problem with the hard drive. I was planning on replacing the HDD with an SSD anyways but before I do so I need to be sure that my hard drive is causing the issue. Any help or advice on how to diagnose that my hard drive is faulty is much appreciated!
 
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I'd say create a bootable USB drive with some disk utilities and scan it. That way you're taking any potential issue with the OS being screwed out of the equation. Something like Rufus or Yumi (my preference) to create a bootable drive and then something like Ultimate Boot CD for your bootable tools.

Yumi
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

Ultimate Boot CD
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com
I'd say create a bootable USB drive with some disk utilities and scan it. That way you're taking any potential issue with the OS being screwed out of the equation. Something like Rufus or Yumi (my preference) to create a bootable drive and then something like Ultimate Boot CD for your bootable tools.

Yumi
https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/

Ultimate Boot CD
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com
 
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Hi there sentinel1,

I would say that the drive is most probably failing as well.

You can use a brand specific (or a third party one) testing tool that can provide a SMART report. Look for pending/reallocated and uncorrectable sectors.
If your system can't really boot, you will need to use a DOS version.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)
 
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