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How to check if hard disk is about to fail?

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Battousai01

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Hi guys,

I have a 1TB laptop hard disk and I noticed that Windows starts to hang too often and sometimes doesn't load.

I have reinstalled Windows numerous times already from the recovery partition of the same hard disk and every after re-installation of Windows it will only take a few days or a weel before boot up and loading of Windows slows down to the point it becomes progressively slower until it just hangs into black screen then I need to re-install again.

I am thinking this is a hard drive issue because there are times when "disk checking" initializes on boot-up.

I tried to use a different hard disk a few days ago and so far everything is running smoothly but I am still monitoring.

So is there an application I can use to check if this 1TB hard disk is already about to fail?

Also, is there a lifespan or how old does a mechanical hard drive when it starts to fail? I have mixed experience on this but is there an average age for mechanical drives when they start to fail?

Thanks in advance for any replies! 🙂
 
When checking the important things out, like reallocated, pending, and uncorrectable, sectors, the raw column matters most, and defaults to hex.
 
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