when is it time to replace a hard drive?

[fireangel1996]

i have an old hard drive that i think is starting to fail, ive had it about 6-8 years , recently games have started to "uninstall" there selfs and weird stuff like that has been happening , on top of that when loading into some games it has frame drops on the "entering" screens like its having problems loading the game up.

 

[derekullo]

If the hard drive has SMART on it that would be a great place to check.

Crystal Disc Info can show it.

https://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

If you restart your computer and press press f12 as its booting you may have a computer diagnostics tool that can also test for hard drive errors.


You can also check the event logs in windows for "ntfs" errors

 

[mamasan2000]

It's probably time to defrag the harddisk

Mydefrag is one
http://mydefrag.8qm.de/#1

Defraggler is another one. I don't like Windows own.

 

[fireangel1996]

You don't think it's just getting too old? And how do u defrag it, what's it do, and will I need to re-do windows cus I don't have the key anymore I lost it, new to this stuff lol

 

[derekullo]

A drive could be 100% fragmented and while games would load exceptionally slow, they would not "uninstall" themselves.

The only way for a game to "uninstall" itself is if the area of the hard drive it is written to is having problems reading / writing.

I highly recommend running the diagnostics test from above.

You can simply run the diagnostics and walk away while it completes.

 

[fireangel1996]

how do i use this crystal mark thing? i click start then nothing happens?

 

[fireangel1996]

nvm its done but idk how to read this? idk if its good or bad

 

[fireangel1996]

it says health status is "good" does that mean that its not my hard drive?