Hard drive is failing?

[Moonpie94]

My roommate's laptop was acting weird lately, so, yesterday after it stopped responding once again, he performed emergency shutdown, and instead of normal boot, error screen occurred saying something like "Windows failed to start error 0xc000000f".
I managed to start hard drive check using bootable flash drive. In about 15 mins 8 segments appeared to be unreadable(900-907), and after that check speed dropped down a lot(ETA is about 800 hours now).
Does it mean that hard drive is failing and he should consider buying a new one?

 

[i7Baby]

Do a Checkdisk with Repair.

Check it with the manufacturer's diagnostic software eg Seagate - Seatools, WD - Lifeguard.

 

[Moonpie94]

Do a Checkdisk with Repair.

Check it with the manufacturer's diagnostic software eg Seagate - Seatools, WD - Lifeguard.

That's exactly what I did, but it takes forever to finish. And I'm not able to use any software because I'm in repair mode and operate using command line

 

[MarkW]

It does sound like the hard drive is failing.

 

[Moonpie94]

It does sound like the hard drive is failing.

Is there anyway to make sure aside from chkdsk feature and using downloadable software?

 

[MarkW]

Just the fact that its suddenly become really, really slow, tells you there is a major problem. Its not like its going to suddenly become all good and healthy again. There is a chance that the Check Disk utility could repair minor problems, but you said the ETA on that was 800 hours. That by itself is bad news. 800 hours is 30 days and 9 hours. LOL

I suggest replacing the drive.

 

[Moonpie94]

Just the fact that its suddenly become really, really slow, tells you there is a major problem. Its not like its going to suddenly become all good and healthy again. There is a chance that the Check Disk utility could repair minor problems, but you said the ETA on that was 800 hours. That by itself is bad news. 800 hours is 30 days and 9 hours. LOL

I suggest replacing the drive.

Well, this sucks
Is there a way to fix boot error at least?

 

[Moonpie94]

Guys, I could use any help you can provide.

 

[MarkW]

Which version of Windows?
32 or 64 bit?
Brand and model of the hard drive?

 

[MarkW]

OK, If the MBR needs fixing, follow the Repairing the MBR section of this...
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/win7-windows-7-mbr,10036.html

 

[Moonpie94]

Which version of Windows?
32 or 64 bit?
Brand and model of the hard drive?

Windows 8.1 64 bit.
Hard drive is Hitachi HTS545050A7E380

MBR fixing did nothing.

 

[MarkW]

Those are normally pretty reliable drives. But anything can fail.

That same link above will let you try to rebuild the partition table too. Just keep reading below the repairing the MBR section. Because without the partition table, windows is not going to access the partitions.

If you get the partition table rebuilt, and you are trying to get files off of the drive, probably the best way to do that at this point would be to remove the drive, and install it into a desktop system as a secondary drive, and see if it will at least recognise the drive and let you copy files off of it.

If you can get files off of it, get everything you might want off now. That drive is only going to get worse with time.

Consider getting an SSD as the replacement drive for your laptop. Not only will it speed things up a bit on the laptop, but it has no moving parts, runs much cooler, and will help with battery life.

 

[Moonpie94]

Those are normally pretty reliable drives. But anything can fail.

That same link above will let you try to rebuild the partition table too. Just keep reading below the repairing the MBR section. Because without the partition table, windows is not going to access the partitions.

If you get the partition table rebuilt, and you are trying to get files off of the drive, probably the best way to do that at this point would be to remove the drive, and install it into a desktop system as a secondary drive, and see if it will at least recognise the drive and let you copy files off of it.

If you can get files off of it, get everything you might want off now. That drive is only going to get worse with time.

Consider getting an SSD as the replacement drive for your laptop. Not only will it speed things up a bit on the laptop, but it has no moving parts, runs much cooler, and will help with battery life.

Well, I guess buying new hard drive is inevitable. Thanks for the help anyways