How can i tell if my hard drive is going bad?

Question

How can i tell if my hard drive is going bad?

Answer 1

run scandisk and make sure you check the option to scan the surface area for physical damage. If your computer seems to be running slower and there is a kind of grinding noise coming from the drive, it's probably time to replace it before losing all of your data.

Answer 2

If its making a bunch on new noises while its operating, then you very likely have a impending failure of the drive. You might have to consider doing a total back up before it crashes.

Answer 3

Unless its making really loud noise its fine.

chances are whatever problem you are experiencing has nothing to do with your physical drive.

if your drive did suffer a head crash(most common form of hard drive failure) it simply wouldn't work

Answer 4

It will take forever to do stuff, or freeze up or make clicking noises. You can do a scan of the disk to find out.

Answer 5

run scandisk then defrag disk, defrag will tell you if you have any bad clusters