my pc hard drive

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My Windows XP doesn't load good all the time. I may have to do it two or
three times. The little blocks freeze at some point during loading.
Sometimes, BIOS stops with disk failure. However, it seems to run fine once
I get Windows loaded. I restored back to a point where it seems to run
better.

I'm wondering if there is a software problem, or am I seeing the beginning
of hard disk failure?

Is there any way of finding out if it's a hard disk failure?
 
rb said:
My Windows XP doesn't load good all the time. I may have to do it
two or three times. The little blocks freeze at some point during
loading. Sometimes, BIOS stops with disk failure. However, it
seems to run fine once I get Windows loaded. I restored back to a
point where it seems to run better.

I'm wondering if there is a software problem, or am I seeing the
beginning of hard disk failure?

Is there any way of finding out if it's a hard disk failure?
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Download the hard disk drive manufacturer's diagnostics utility (from the
hard disk drive manufacturer's web page) and after making a backup of the
contents of your hard drive in whatever way you normally backup your stuff -
run the full diagnostics on the drive.
 
My Windows XP doesn't load good all the time. I may have to do it two or
three times. The little blocks freeze at some point during loading.
Sometimes, BIOS stops with disk failure. However, it seems to run fine once
I get Windows loaded. I restored back to a point where it seems to run
better.

I'm wondering if there is a software problem, or am I seeing the beginning
of hard disk failure?

Is there any way of finding out if it's a hard disk failure?
Click to expand...

Yes -- identify maker of the drive and run the maker's
diagnostics.
If you need further guidance repost with full details e.g.
your firewall and antivirus settings.
 
I had a problem like this about a month ago, bought a new hard drive and
then found out that it was the power unit that was failing. If you can
borrow a hard drive from someone put it in and try it or buy a power unit
(they are not expensive) and try that.
 
Trying a new hard drive is not the first logical step, the first step should
be, as Shenan and Don pointed out, testing the current drive to see if it's
failing. Why waste an hour or so installing a new drive and a fresh load of
Windows, and still not know if the original hard drive is defective or not?
 
I could not have run the program you mention as my computer did not stay
active long enough.
 
welll you can eliminate one possibilty of it being a bad sector or sectors on
the HD with a Windows tool. Go to start, my computer right click on the C
drive select properties and then tools, error checking, check both boxes. it
will tell you it will schedule it for the next time you start the computer so
ok on that then power down your computer and turn it on and Windows will scan
the drive, detect any bad sectors, and fix them. Hopefully this may help.
Let me know.
Best regards,
Kaja Sanvean
 
If your computer won't run long enough to boot from a floppy or CD to run
hard drive diagnostics, you have bigger problems.
 
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