Is my harddrive dead?

[Blarg]

Hello, i have recently been experiencing some issues and was wondering if you could tell me if you think its my HDD dying. so, i havent heard any odd noises or had any disappearing files, but what i have had is one corrupt game install after another. Whether downloaded or installed off a disk i have to try atleast 3-4 times 90% of the time before i dont receive a "corrupt install" Most of these seem to have something about the destination file. Any ideas? 

[Jacky]

how full is the drive? and have you done anything to it physically ? and how old is the drive?

[Blarg]

how full is the drive? and have you done anything to it physically ? and how old is the drive?

196gigs free out of 440

[Jacky]

have you tried installing the file on a different hard drive?

[Blarg]

is ur computer stable after ur overclock? 

very. prime 95 for hours never hitting 70c 

[Jacky]

if the hard drive is old it might be some dead zones 

[brob]

Make sure you have everything backed up. It does sound like the hard drive. Most drive manufacturers have software that will test their drives. Check the support section of the web site for your drive.

[alpenwasser]

Assuming you're on Windows, I've heard good things about Crystaldiskinfo for

diagnosing HDD problems (though I haven't used it myself since I'm using a

different OS).

As a side note, old age is the #1 killer of HDDs, so if your drive is old,

that's definitely a possibility.

EDIT: HDTune also seems to be popular.

[aselwyn1]

Yes use HD tune and look for bad sectors as the sector the game is probably trying to install to is probably bad but that's normal for sectors to go bad over time even new drives have dead sectors