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Is my HDD ded?

BenasBr
By BenasBr
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2 minutes ago, BenasBr said:

It's always 90-100% I almost sold this to someone today.. "SMART" thinks its K.

I'd download Seagate's tools or run a basic disk check through cmd prompt to check for sectors. But W10 is known to have higher HDD usage at times. But, your other thing is going to be mostly related to what software you are running. If you have Spotify, I'd 100% guess it's that. But also, go into task manager, disable start up items. Go to Malwarebytes page and download some antimalware tools and test for that as well.

 

High usage isn't a sign of a dying HDD, its a sign that its being used. Failing HDD would result in... well.... failures.

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3 minutes ago, Ryujin2003 said:

I'd download Seagate's tools or run a basic disk check through cmd prompt to check for sectors. But W10 is known to have higher HDD usage at times. But, your other thing is going to be mostly related to what software you are running. If you have Spotify, I'd 100% guess it's that. But also, go into task manager, disable start up items. Go to Malwarebytes page and download some antimalware tools and test for that as well.

 

High usage isn't a sign of a dying HDD, its a sign that its being used. Failing HDD would result in... well.... failures.

its 8.1

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6 minutes ago, BenasBr said:

Ok the usage is not that high right now maybe it was just cause I just turned it on but still i'm worried cause its power on time is 1192,3 days

 

probably Window's indexing service.

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time for a new HDD. if it's reallocating sectors, it means it can't write to them for some reason and is considering them dead.

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