Is my PC on the way out?

[Pandamonium]

I've had this machine for 5 or 6 years now. (It's a 2500+ in a NF7-S v2.0) Anyway, I've never had to format it, but now I'm running into some issues.

I had an unusual reboot and Chkdsk automatically ran. The thing spent 30+ mins going into the analysis before it looked like it had hung. Anyway, I rebooted and chkdsk did not try running again. More recently, Outlook's PST has been giving me errors. Bear in mind, this is a 1.5+GB PST that's been accumulating. Outlook instructed me to run scanpst.exe, which told me that chkdsk needs to fix things on my drive.

Is it safe to say my HDD is on its way out?

If so, and you were me, would you bother trying to give this machine another few months by getting a new HDD, or would you just let it go and get a new machine?

 

[dclive]

I suggest simply letting chkdsk run - overnight if required - and monitoring its' logfiles to see what it does.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

5-6 years old, that drive is living on borrowed time. Replace it. As for the PST file, they can only be 2GB and after that they start becoming corrupt. Make sure it isnt larger than that

 

[oynaz]

Outlook is very good at screwing up it's own files.

Run the diagnostics software from your HDD manufacturer's website. They usually do a very good job.

 

[crydee]

5 years and never reformatted? I would back up everything you can and reformat it .. a lot of things can go wrong with a Windows install by then.