Immediately back up your data. My Seagate HDD was like that before it went completely dead. Try saving everything you can while you can.
Is my hard drive dying?
I tried to open an old movie, it hung my system and kmplayer told me there was an error reading the file. My system never really recovered( things wouldn't open, other programs would hang), so i restarted and the same thing happened. I shut down, dusted my system and restarted twice and it seems to be WORKING now, but just barely. My hard drives are making excessive noise, so i checked their health, and SMART says they're fine. I ran hdtune and this is what i got.
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I ran it on my other hard drive and i got normal results, so i don't think its the mobo or anything like that, here is a screenshot of the other one.
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I kinda need advice urgently, should install windows on the other HD and start using that until i get this figured out?
I ran it on my other hard drive and i got normal results, so i don't think its the mobo or anything like that, here is a screenshot of the other one.
I kinda need advice urgently, should install windows on the other HD and start using that until i get this figured out?
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Yup, sounds like it's dying.
Getting a SSD for your OS and games is a good idea. You can get a good 60GB for $249 on Newegg or a 30GB ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...AGILITY%2030GB ) for $149.
EDIT: SSDs are only worth getting for programs that you frequently use.. Installing your OS on a SSD will make it boot incredibly fast and same goes for games.. Ofcourse you could also save very important files on there that you don't want to lose in case of a failing HDD.
Originally Posted by froggger  I don't have any other drives big enough to handle all my data, but most of it is replaceable, i'm going to install windows on the other hard drive and use it to back up what i need to, that will take me a while, but please keep giving advice. and since this will obviously need replacing, i thinking about an ssd boot drive/storage drive combo, how much would one run me do you guys think? |
Getting a SSD for your OS and games is a good idea. You can get a good 60GB for $249 on Newegg or a 30GB ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...AGILITY%2030GB ) for $149.
EDIT: SSDs are only worth getting for programs that you frequently use.. Installing your OS on a SSD will make it boot incredibly fast and same goes for games.. Ofcourse you could also save very important files on there that you don't want to lose in case of a failing HDD.
Decent specs and much cheaper. Not the best for windows 7 I guess but you get the idea.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-007-_-Product
This one is much better.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-087-_-Product
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-007-_-Product
This one is much better.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-087-_-Product
All of the SSD's that I've seen, handled, and installed were 2.5 inch. I used adapter brackets for mounting or you can just mount them wherever you like as they take up very little space. I'd opt for a 64 GB or 128 GB for your operating system though I would pick the first drive you listed if that's what you're wanting. Hope this helps
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What about this one? It's only a little more for twice the space.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-030-_-Product
What about this one? It's only a little more for twice the space.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-030-_-Product
Hmm, strange new development, i got an RMA from Samsung, but if its not really broken I have to pay some fees or something, so to make sure, i ran hdtune again, and this time i got completly normal results.
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I'm thinking maybe its the fact that the first time when i thought it was failing, i was running windows off that same drive, i'm NOW running it off of an old hard drive.
What should I do?
I'm thinking maybe its the fact that the first time when i thought it was failing, i was running windows off that same drive, i'm NOW running it off of an old hard drive.
What should I do?
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