Weird HDD Behaviour, Virus?

[andrew89898]

Hi, I was using my computer normally but then nothing responded all everything halted except for mouse movement. I quickly deduced this was the hdd as the hdd indicator was off few minutes later it's back on not flickering full on indicating a lot of activity. Then everything stops again hdd light off Skype call drops and pc temps (in tray) stop updating. It had done it at least 3 times so I turned off pc in fear of hard drive failure. I have booted into safe mode and everything there is fine. I am wondering what I should do, I am going to do a virus scan and malware bytes and a chkdsk. Am I being paranoid in thinking there could be a virus attempting to destroy my hdd? How should I go about solving this as I am scared to do a normal boot in case there is a virus which is manipulating files or something.

So in summary the hdd completely halts for a few mins then starts.
If you need any more info ask.

Thanks.

Also as this is in the pc I don't usually hear my hdd should I listen to it whilst this happens?

 

[uplink-svk]

Please run CrystalDiskInfo a post a screenshot here. Or rather, is Your disk status "blue" [good] or yellow[warrning]/red[failure]?

 

[APassingMe]

It could be disk failure, a corrupt software install (normally AV) or viruses/malware. It's kind of hard to tell you which it is, however if it's fine in safe mode, then it's probably either corrupt software or malware, good luck.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there andrew89898,

After there is a possible HDD issue, I would suggest you to start with backing up the most important data that is stored on it.
Apart from that, I would also agree uplink-svk and say that it will be a good idea to run some HDD testing software in order to check out the HDD's health status. These hangs, could be caused by some bad sectors.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD