re: Possibly failing hard drive Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 2:00 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by MartinM (5127 messages posted) Would a clean install of Windows 7 do anything for the hard drive ? The software make absolutely no difference to the mechanical state and performance of the HDD. Also, any chance it's not the hard drive? I'm not getting any weird noises from it and it is still pretty fast. Possible but unlikely, in the end you'll never know until it fails, but you have all the symptoms of a failing drive. Its not 100% certain to be the HDD, just probable. You often don't get noises or slowness. Is there any good software out there that is not made by the manufacturer itself (DiskCheckUp, Active Smart)? I'd like to run one of them first. The manufacturer's software is best - why are you trying to avoid it ? Would I need to backup before using one of these? No. Written in response to: re: Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:57 pm) Responses to this message: re: Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 3:50 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 9:35 am) re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 10:20 am) re: Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 12:57 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 2:00 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 3:50 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (MartinM: Wed, Nov 4, 2009, 4:23 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (barry: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 8:20 pm) re: Possibly failing hard drive (Larry: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 11:05 am) re: Possibly failing hard drive (barry: Thu, Nov 5, 2009, 8:24 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum