re: Possibly failing hard drive Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 8:20 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by barry (11 messages posted) it doesn't sound like the hard drive is bad If you cold reinstall that wouldn't be a bad idea On Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:57 pm, Devarshi Patel wrote: >I've still got a lot of questions, thanks in advance for the help. > >Would a clean install of Windows 7 do anything for the hard drive or would I have >to replace it completely? Also, any chance it's not the hard drive? I'm not getting >any weird noises from it and it is still pretty fast. I also ran CHKDSK again on >startup and got no errors. 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. Would I need to backup before using one of these? > > Written in response to: re: Possibly failing hard drive (Devarshi Patel: Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 12:57 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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