- Oct 5, 2004
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Is it really possible for a HDD to "forget" things? Because I'm think that's what's happening with my PC.
The primary boot HDD (a PATA Western Digital Caviar 120GB) is pretty old now and as of lately it's acting strange. It's being detected just fine and the PC boots fine, but once Windows is loading, sometimes (but fortunately rarely) it doesn't finish loading, it just hangs, sometimes also resulting in a BSOD. Once inside Windows, programs sometimes crash suddenly without any apparent reason, or Windows BSODs right away (with random errors, like PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, DRIVER_IRQ_LESS_OR_EQUAL (or something), etc.).
Now, thinking that it could Windows could somehow be corrupt, I reinstalled everything, but the problems still persist. I did notice that whenever Windows wouldn't boot (one of the times was because system files became corrupt), I performed a surface check with chkdsk on the boot partition and after fixing errors, Windows would boot again, but it doesn't do that always. I did a few more surface checks, but no more bad sectors were found and the amount of bad sectors is only minimal.
What do you think?
On a side note, I already ordered a new HDD (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB) and 2x1GB Kingston HyperX PC3200 DDR RAM (I've always wanted to expand the memory, so yeah, I might do that as well now). The new HDD will replace the boot HDD, the "broken" HDD will serve as a backup HDD as long as it can last, and I'll see if that fixes things.
The primary boot HDD (a PATA Western Digital Caviar 120GB) is pretty old now and as of lately it's acting strange. It's being detected just fine and the PC boots fine, but once Windows is loading, sometimes (but fortunately rarely) it doesn't finish loading, it just hangs, sometimes also resulting in a BSOD. Once inside Windows, programs sometimes crash suddenly without any apparent reason, or Windows BSODs right away (with random errors, like PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, DRIVER_IRQ_LESS_OR_EQUAL (or something), etc.).
Now, thinking that it could Windows could somehow be corrupt, I reinstalled everything, but the problems still persist. I did notice that whenever Windows wouldn't boot (one of the times was because system files became corrupt), I performed a surface check with chkdsk on the boot partition and after fixing errors, Windows would boot again, but it doesn't do that always. I did a few more surface checks, but no more bad sectors were found and the amount of bad sectors is only minimal.
What do you think?
On a side note, I already ordered a new HDD (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB) and 2x1GB Kingston HyperX PC3200 DDR RAM (I've always wanted to expand the memory, so yeah, I might do that as well now). The new HDD will replace the boot HDD, the "broken" HDD will serve as a backup HDD as long as it can last, and I'll see if that fixes things.