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Dying HDD?

djdelarosa25
By djdelarosa25
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Did a clean install of Windows 7 x64.  I only have 3GB of RAM, but it spikes up randomly, even teh disk activity, even though most of the time I'm just sitting on two tabs in Chrome. I did another post here and someone said that it was a dying hard drive. Downloaded an app called CrystalDiskInfo and these were the results.


 


Is it dying? Is it the cause for the random RAM and Disk Activity spikes?


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yes those bad sectors will grow more and more

 

caution means the HDD is showing signs it gonna fail

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yes those bad sectors will grow more and more

 

caution means the HDD is showing signs it gonna fail

 

Is it why the PC has been randomly freezing up?

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yes your starting to get bad sectors and will only get worse. best to back your things up on another drive before something happens

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Is it why the PC has been randomly freezing up?

if you are accessing your drive and it freezes

 

then yes the HDD is dying

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