What are the signs a hard drive gives when it is about to crash?

Written by admin on April 15, 2009 – 10:04 am -

My laptop is about 4 years old and I have defragmented and run Scan Disk. My hard drive light is almost always blinking as if the hard drive is working even when the computer is idle. It never used to do this before. I did a quick restore to restore the operating system and all the software that came originally with the computer hoping this would solve the problem, but it didn't. The hard drive light seems to always be on as if the hard drive is busy doing something and the computer is responding very slugishly. I have run antivirus, spyware removal, registry cleaner, adware remover etc. The problem has not gone away. Any suggestions or answers to what this problem could be due to? My computer also seemed to run a bit hot the other day (resulting in computer shutting off), even when on Chill Pad. Thank you in advance.
CHKDSK result.: WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
File verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Index verification completed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
Security descriptor verification completed.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the
master file table (MFT) bitmap.
CHKDSK discovered free space marked as allocated in the volume bitmap.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.

39062015 KB total disk space.
12661248 KB in 73156 files.
23508 KB in 6638 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
89627 KB in use by the system.
4096 KB occupied by the log file.
26287632 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
9765503 total allocation units on disk.
6571908 allocation units available on disk.

It's had a good life.
You've done all the correct houskeeping to reduce stress.
Try HDD Health - see link.
If you get another 6 months be grareful.
Back it up immediately and often.
When they go it's sudden death.
Good luck


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4 Responses to “What are the signs a hard drive gives when it is about to crash?”

  1. By pratap k on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply

    this problem is happening if there hard drive cluster is bad .. just try to format the hard disk with 98 or DOS bootable disk and reinstall the OS .
    References :

  2. By darwin916.com ???? on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply

    Try to re-install a fresh OS …

    But make sure you backup 1st …

    Some do it every year …
    References :

  3. By Jeuteau on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply

    Goin'! Goin'! Gone! If you have any useful data on this drive, back it up now and get a new drive. You missed the bad block/sectors report from chkdsk. You might also want to do a memory check before installing new drive. Bad memory crashes drives.
    References :
    memtest

  4. By golluble on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply

    It's had a good life.
    You've done all the correct houskeeping to reduce stress.
    Try HDD Health - see link.
    If you get another 6 months be grareful.
    Back it up immediately and often.
    When they go it's sudden death.
    Good luck
    References :
    http://www.laptop-security-pro.com/hard-drive-testing-utilities.html

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