The HDD light is permenantly on.
It keeps making crunchy noises
My game had files mysteriously currupted, I tried reinstalling it from the files which are on my hd and it wouldnt work cos some of the files were corrupted.
I have had the hard drive for 3 years and I have never touched it or looked at it.
Could the reason for my corrupted files be HDD failure or are there other possible reasons?
2007-09-20 03:11:38 · 11 answers · asked by cigaro19 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
And also programs keep closing for no reaso like firefox and sometimes the pc restarts for no reason
2007-09-20 03:18:36 · update #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAcG4LVoqBg
2007-09-20 03:15:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
its possible the drive is simply overheating. Try using a can of compressed air to clean out whatever dust is in your computer (a good idea in any case), but be prepared for further trouble. If its making a clicking sound that simply won't go away, you have a major problem. back up your data immediately and start shopping for a new hard drive. repeated BSODs (those annoying and infamous blue screens with error messages) are also a good indication of serious problems.
2016-05-19 02:02:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your hard drive sounds like it's probably dying. Symptoms for hard drives dying are clicking noises.. You will also hear sometimes a powering up and down noise. I would recommend doing a scandisk or other equivalent hard disk utilty to check all your sectors. If it finds bad sectors I would replace it as soon as possible with a new hard drive before you have anymore data loss. In the future you should consider having a raid solution so that if you have a total hard drive faluire you can have another hard drive mirror the other one. This is a redundent solution if you have a data that is critical.
2007-09-20 03:18:07 · answer #3 · answered by Brian R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you done a virus scan recently?
If not, I'd recomend that you make sure you've got the latest virus definitions for you software and then run a full system scan.
It might just be some malicious software that is causing the probelms...
If not, back up what you can and get a new drive - they're pretty cheap nowadays.
Good luck!
2007-09-20 03:21:55 · answer #4 · answered by Nycoy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Had this happen to me many times before, yep your HD is toast! Time to get a new one. Back up everything before you loose all HD functioning all together.
2007-09-20 03:16:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep, sounds like it.
NB. Most hard drives fail because they get too hot ... when you replace it, see if you can improve the air flow ...
2007-09-20 03:21:12 · answer #6 · answered by Steve B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3 years is a good run for a hard drive, but have you formatted it before?. try a format before you buy a new drive.
2007-09-20 03:17:34 · answer #7 · answered by herr fugelmeister 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yep that's dead for sure! I'd get a replacement one soon if i were you!
2007-09-21 03:49:26 · answer #8 · answered by galactica1974 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
reformat it and reinstall your os sys and see if it will do that.
if not it is dead !
more than likely it is !
2007-09-20 03:21:22 · answer #9 · answered by JavaScript_Junkie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you must need a new one
2007-09-20 03:19:41 · answer #10 · answered by jrmint92 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋