hard drive dying?

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im having trouble with my hard drive the problem is occasionally when i do a system reboot i get a bsod now i defiantly know its not my ram because i upgraded literally like 3 weeks ago to 12 gb of ddr3 ram im suspecting it may be my hard drive iv owned it for 5 + years its only a 180gb. every time a boot i get bsod and then restart then the repair screen comes up, i let it do a full repair this time the last time this happened it wouldn't repair and then said the storage was corrupt so i did a system reinstall. how can i check weather my hard drive is on its way out and how long do i have? i have 2 other hard drives available to me so this is not a problem for me im just wondering how to check if it is a problem with my hard drive and how long iv got before a totally failure. if it is not the hard drive or my ram is there another issue that can cause a blue screen of death.

 

[Luminary]

If you have a stable enough system to install new software you can install this free disk diagnostic: http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

Run it on the suspected drive and it will tell you if it has errors.

From the sound of the drive behaviour and overall age of the device it certainly sounds like it is on its way out. Best thing to do is to backup any data you still want off of it immeditately, as once a drive begins to fail there is no way to know wen it will finally die for good.

 

[ErikVinoya]

I would advice that you boot from a good drive (if you have one with an OS already), then use CrystalDiskInfo from http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html. I can't check right now but the last time I installed that it was asked to bundle an addon, so make sure to uncheck that.

CrystalDisk should be able to tell you your hdd status