Hard Drive Crapping Out

[Sachmo12345]

i have a feeling this is the problem with my computer all activities that require a good amount of reading of the harddrive make the computer slow down, the program stop responding, freezing, etc. does this make sense cus i think im just gonna get a new hard drive

[itsthepham]

Have you tried cleaning out your harddrive first as well has defragmenting?

[Sachmo12345]

yes ive done both when were there deals like that ronin

[AlienDB7]

Do you have S.M.A.R.T. enabled in BIOS? If so, you'll probably get errors messages during boot up. Have to admit S.M.A.R.T. doesn't always work...

When the program freezes during HD read/write, are they always accessing a certain file? If so, there's a high probability that it's really a HD problem. Sadly, I was unfortunate enough to experience that several times in the past Also, look for ticking sound or HD resetting sound, they're signs of problem HD.

HD will die sooner or later, it's just matter of when.