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Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>Windows 7 seems to think my hard drive is failing> Solved Windows 7 seems to think my hard drive is failing Tags: Hard Drives Windows 7 Storage Last response: 11 October 2014 02:20 in windows detected a hard disk problem windows 10 Storage Share Soraiku 12 February 2012 14:22:16 I've googled the issue, most of it is support
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for checking the problem, which doesn't seem to be turning up much for me. My question is simple. Could windows be mistaken, or is
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this warning always accurate? My hard drive should still be within the 3 year warranty period (Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB, bought a year or so ago), so I may see if I can do something with that. All I've done
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today is partition the drive a couple times, and put it into a new system and installed Windows 7. I'm about to re-merge the partitions to see if that hopefully fixes the problem, but I'm not holding my breath. After that's done I'd like to try some hard disk check software. One site seemed to recommend Seatools from seagate. Would this be an adequate check? And if nothing comes up, what might the issue be? The hard drive was running windows detected a hard disk problem backup your files immediately to prevent information loss fine earlier today before I put it into my new system. Prior to that, the drive seemed fine with one exception a few months ago in which a folder seemed to have become corrupted and inaccessible, but then became accessible again with no issues. Nothing really happened after that and I've been using it just fine ever since. Note: I've already run ChkDsk /F /R. As far as I could tell, nothing came up, but I keep getting the same error message anyway. More about : windows hard drive failing RealBeast a c 501 G Storage a c 308 $ Windows 7 12 February 2012 22:32:49 Run CrystalDiskInfo on the drive to check its status. m 0 l lafontma 12 February 2012 22:37:44 And "Where" is windows telling you the drive is failling? in the event viewer? what is the error code? m 0 l Related resources My computer / Hard drive recognition extremely slow and failing in Windows 7 - Tech Support Error checking external 1TB hard drive within Windows 7 has been running for over a day, and seems to be stuck. - Tech Support Hard drive seems to be failing big time - Tech Support I think my hard drive is corrupted, I want to remove the source of the corruption and reinstall windows 7 - Tech Support Hard Drive is Failing (Said by Windows 7) Please help. - Tech Support Can't find your answer ?
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SuppliesRoboticsSoftwareTips & TricksInternetMobileGamingBroadbandGoogle FiberVideosYou are here: Home / Hardware / Hard Drives / Hard Drive Failure: Warnings and SolutionsHard Drive Failure: Warnings and SolutionsSeptember 27, 2007 by PCMech Staff 79 Comments Sooner or later, all hard drives crash. It is only a matter of when. When it happens, the degree of sweat and tears you experience is directly related to how prepared you were for it to begin with. Backing up your data is important. I even have two computers which are set up almost identically so that if the drive on one of my machines dies, I don't lose any worktime or data. Preparation is the best medicine, but this stuff happens anyway. Warning SignsIn some cases, you start to see signs of a problem before the drive up and dies on you. Early warning signs include:Computer freezes often. When it happens, the mouse cursor is unmovable and keyboard input is ignored. Nothing works and a restart is required to recover the computer.Files Mysterious disappearing.Frequent lock-up during booting. I say "frequent" because all computers will freeze every now and then and it doesn't necessarily mean the drive is failing. You're looking for a pattern here.File access mysteriously slows to a turtle's pace. Saving files or open files simply takes forever.These are typical warning signs of a pending drive failure. When you start to see a noticeable increase in these patterns, backing up your data needs to take top priority. Otherwise you really are playing Russian roulette with your hard drive.Signs of Real FailureWhen the drive actually fails, it is a mechanical failure. Many times you will actually hear the drive making strange metallic noises. This is the read/write head thrashing around aimlessly and indicates failure. When your system has a crashed hard drive, it will not be able to boot. You may even get a blue screen of death.Hard drive failure is a black and white thing. If the driv