Failing Hardrive ??

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bugattiboy01

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I have an Ssd as my main drive and a HDD as my secondary drive over had if for a few years and after trying to run a setup file from the drive it crashed/restarted Explorer.exe and over different tries and running different setups to test it I've had quite a few blue screen with inpage kernel error and failing to dumb to physical memory. However I can still play a game "mass effect" installed on it. I have run many stress tests and repairs but found no problems is the HDD failing? Everything works fine until I try to do something that extensively uses the hdd
 
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1| Can you please share your full system's specs and your OS?
2| Have you tried running another HDD in place of the culprit drive? It might reveal whether the HDD is failing. Often times a mechanical drive can fail in a matter of days or keep going for a number of years before showing any signs of stress fractures.
3| You're absolutely sure your installer isn't corrupt? While you're certain your OS isn't corrupt either?
 
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980Ti
4790K
Sandisk II 480GB SSD
MDT 500GB HDD (the dodgy brand culprit)
16GB CORSAIR VENGEANCE RAM
Legit Windows 7 professional
Everything is functional execpt when a heavy load is placed on the D drive (hdd drive) it also makes error messages appear stating that the "program" cannot write. It works but is very unstable
 
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There isnt a website also id rather not pay $60 for a program thanks
 
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Umm ....

1. "MDT" hard drives are used drives refurbished by "Magnetic Data Technologies". The drives are almost always manufactured by WD (Western Digital) or Seagate, unfortunately, when MDT refurbishes them, they remove all the WD or Seagate labels. However, the diagnostic tools I mentioned, don't need the labels to read all drive information. Had you mentioned the vendor in the original poistm, I would have listed the download links but I don't see why you should have any trouble locating the WD, Seagate of any other HD manufacturer web sites.

2. Id rather not pay for stuff too, but as the saying goes... you "get what you pay for". When you get something for free, often that's going to be exactly what it is worth. Going "cheap" with a used drive, is what brought you here in the 1st place.

If I found one of these drives in a PC that was brought in w/ problems, I wouldn't even start diagnosing anything until replacing ir.
 
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1. I know, i have the seagate hdd repair software and as i already said none of them detected a problem
2. Buying a dodgy looking software that will probably not even work or wont fix it any better than the seagate software. Especially when i can buy a new hdd for the same price. Then you try and blame it on me for "going cheap" The base pc is probably 3 years old and the hdd is the only original part in it since it gave me no problems and it was my secondary drive. All i wanted to know is if the HDD is failing because then i will order a brand new one as if it is another problem its pointless buying a new one since i dont need more speed/space and it might not even fix it.
 
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Ok so I think it finally died so I took it out but now when I want to boot it says "reboot and select proper boot drive" although my Ssd has all of the system files on it and it's set as the boot option and if i manually boot from it I still get this message
 
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Hi

Another thing to test is your ram
Memtest86 has free and professional versions
If you have some faulty ram you cant rely on other diagnostic tests

Both WD & Seagate make Windows diagnostic software and bootable cd images
The wd windows version works on most hdd brands
seagates boot cd again works on most hdd brands

A quick test will detect a dying disk but a full or long test is needed to find a few bad sectors

Regards
Mike Barnes
 
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