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Hard Drive Dying?

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So the past few months, My computer has been starting up and going into the repair screen. It goes through the usual process to attempt to repair and restore to a previous date. But it did that maybe once in a blue moon. Now it seems like it's happening every other day. Does anyone know if it's a case of my hard drive dying due to age(3ish years), or maybe something else?

 

I do keep most of my data backed up on an external. But I don't keep the OS backed up. I plan to RAID it in the next few weeks. But I can do that sooner than later if it's suggested.

 

PC:

 

Intel i7 2600

NVidia GTX 550 Ti

8GB RAM

Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200RPM (OS Hard Drive. Not Raided)

Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200RPM (Second Drive. Not Raided)

 

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How old are the drives?

Do they make any weird noises?

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CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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I'd had a old WD Black from 4.8 years ago, and it started to makes noises and loud noises but never foced to the repair screen but WD replaced it :D. If you do have to replace the drive I'd suggest WD as they have never Died on me.

 

In your case you could back up the data to the second hard drive then do a complete re-install of the computer's OS and that should fix any issues if it is Software base.

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The hard drives do not make any noises that aren't out of the usual. No strange sounds or anything that I can hear.

 

 

 

 

How old are the drives?

Do they make any weird noises?

The OS drive is maybe 3 years old.

The second was purchased this year.

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The hard drives do not make any noises that aren't out of the usual. No strange sounds or anything that I can hear.

The OS drive is maybe 3 years old.

The second was purchased this year.

 

Try a fresh install... 3 years is nothing for HDDs...

I'd suggest ^this^... But check the SMART data with CrystalDiskInfo first...

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CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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The hard drives do not make any noises that aren't out of the usual. No strange sounds or anything that I can hear.

 

 

 

 

The OS drive is maybe 3 years old.

The second was purchased this year.

I have had bad experience with those drives i had one give out actually about a month ago it had tonnes of bad sectors and then just failed

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