I'm looking for a new HD.

[Magusigne]

Hi guys,

I got a Sammy Spinpoint 500gb that might be crappin out on me early. I've had it for approximately 2 years.

Having a problem where occasionally I get a BSOD during various points computing and then after about 3-5 restarts where my computer will lock during the Bios splash or will lock at windows startup.

Eventually scan disc clicks in and finds a few bad sectors and deletes them, a few more restarts and bad sector deletes later my computer is back to new.

think this is a disc problem? I'm sure its not directly related to a program. No new drivers have been installed in a long time and I regularly defrag and clean my HD.

I'm also looking for a good recommendation on a fast 1TB or above drive that will keep it under 150.

 

[Blain]

1TB WD "Black"

 

[boomhower]

Originally posted by: Blain
1TB WD "Black"

/thread

 

[taltamir]

it COULD be the disk dying on you... run memtest to make sure its not ram and then just proceed with general diagnostics.

 

[baddog60]

If you are getting bad sectors, I would not mess around. It is time for a new drive. Luckily it seems like your bad sectors are currently on unused portions of the disk so you are not losing any information. Often times you will get some form of lose particle in the drive that will sort of float around and damage the platters. It is only a matter of time before it hits an important part of the disk.

 

[taltamir]

yes i bad sectors are really bad in modern drives, although they can be caused from power spikes due to a failing power supply unit as well... but the HDD is the first thing to go...
I thought he said he was getting drive ERRORS not bad sectors though, AFAIK windows does not automatically search for bad sectors (but you can tell chkdsk to do so manually), it searches for file system errors and fixes those. So I figured it could be caused by an erroring mem or cpu or psu or mobo... and then cause data corruption on the hdd which translates into filesystem errors

If you do test with memtest first, UNPLUG THE HDD FROM THE POWER so it doesn't spin while you test and you don't risk more damage to it. it needs to see the least use as possible before you back it up.