Is my hard drive in critical condition?

TheBobcat

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The reason i ask is that lately, i have noticed a decrease in performance, i ran error checking and that went on for quite a while. I have had alot of game crashes due to memory (probably RAM). I even got a random blue screen out of nowhere. But the main thing is that When i start up my computer or using my hard drive quite a bit, it makes a REALLY loud noise. sort of grinding but mixed with alot of vibration. so i looked up the noise and it is apparently in critical condition, But when i open windows Disk management it sais the HDD is healthy. so i don't know what to believe and would like an explanation, thank you.
 
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If there is no important data on the device I would use Disk Management and delete both partitions then use HP Format tool to recreate the partitions

To get to disk management type "disk management" into the Windows search from the start button
You should believe bad noises more than a little electronic thing that can only measure the number of dead sectors.

If it sounds like a dying drive, your drive is dying, and you should backup all the data you've got on there.

However, if you're getting crashes due to your memory (yes, it's talking about RAM, period.) and BSODs, which are almost always either your RAM or a driver issue, then you might have a problem there, possibly as well.
 


I do agree with you but noises do not always mean it is bad (though it is a good indication) Seatools has completely solved a couple of issues I had with harddrives and I think it is worth a try. But you do need to do what he says and backup all important data.
 
the external hdd was taken out of a laptop and put it in an enclosure. It worked perfectly fine at first, but not now. It has two partions G, and H. i could format the 15GB of G but i cant format H. which got me confused. G is filetype fat32, and H is in RAW.
 



If there is no important data on the device I would use Disk Management and delete both partitions then use HP Format tool to recreate the partitions

To get to disk management type "disk management" into the Windows search from the start button
 
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