Is my hard drive failing?

[calvin mc5]

I upgraded my graphics card and not long after that I started receiving blue screens and random crashes in games so I assumed I wasn't getting enough power. I also noticed that my graphics card was giving off a lot of what sounded like coil whine.

But just today I have noticed that a few games have been deleted off my pc and I'm pretty sure I didn't uninstall them, long loading screens and I've just tested how fast I can copy a file from my hard drive to somewhere else on my drive and it is reporting 10 M/B a second transfer speed.

Am I suffering from a failing hard drive?

 

[ss202sl]

have you looked at the smart diagnostics on the hdd? run HDTUNE
http://www.hdtune.com/

 

[WareGw2]

Hello,
It sounds like that your hard drive is damaged somehow. But, there is no sure.
Just run CHKDSK or the like hard drive diagnostic tool to see whether this drive is really corrupted or still healthy.

 

[RolandJS]

If affordable, if possible, boot a usb or dvd backup/restore/clone utility, one of your choosing, and clone the source HD onto an external target HD or media of your choosing, thus having another "master" on hand. Several data recovery specialists indicate that many end-users, in the midst of their crisis, often "try everything", if not successful, phoning or emailing DR companies and finding out: now recovery is much harder, much less successful (in general), and much more expensive.
Or, as Dr_Luke would post, consider simply sending HD off to a DR company.