Hey, have heard the internal/external hard
disk, which has hold very, very important files, videos and more, but, has
suddenly died or failed, can cause people terrible data loss troubles? However,
you do know nothing about how to tell which drive is dying or failing? All
right! No worry! Here are some common symptoms of an dying/failing
internal/external hard disk. Hope you can extract some useful clues for your
cases:
1).
Computer freezes frequently
The frequent computer freezing issues can
be one of the early symptoms that indicate that your used computer
internal/external hard disk is starting to fail or die. But, that doesn’t mean
your computer drive is absolutely dying once your computer often freezes. Why?
There are also other reasons that can bring people computer freezing problems,
like viruses, too full drive or too many applications/processes used at the
same time. Hence, check more signs and see whether they are also in line with
your drive conditions.
2).Extremely
slow computer performance
The computer hard disk conditions,
especially the internal hard disk states, often place a great influence on the
computer response speed. When your drive is well produced and with much free
space, the computer often reacts quickly and processes your problems with fast
speed. However, when your drive is dying or failing with much physical damages,
you often can encounter some really slow computer performances issues, like
really slow boot-up, data accessing, problem processing, data transformation
and more. Therefore, the extremely slow computer performance also can be one of
the dying drive symptoms.
3).
Computer turns itself off often or is not able to boot up properly
The computer often needs some bootable
devices to boot up and also the internal/external drives to keep common data
reading/writing processes. However, once the internal/external hard disk is
dying or failing somehow, the common computer performance will also be
affected. And that’s also why the PC shuts down itself frequently or why your
computer is not able to boot up properly. Hence, when your computer really
reboots itself often, you’d better make drive data backups well and check
whether your drive gets some physical or logical damages.
5).
Internal/external hard disk becomes hot really easily
Your internal/external hard disk always
goes unusually hot, even when you do have used it for a really short time? OK!
When your computer drive really gets problems, like bad sectors, your drive is
really possible to become hotter than other devices in the same enclosure.
Hence, in common use, also pay attention to the temperature of your plunged
drives, if it is possible.
6).CHKDSK
detects too many bad sectors or other serious problems
The Windows CHKDSK is a Windows built-in
tool that can help people recognize some common and simple hard disk problems
easily. Therefore, when you really want to know whether your disk is failed or
crashed, you can directly run this error-checking tool to scan your drive thoroughly
and see whether it is still healthy or not. Is it detected with too many bad
sectors or other serious problems? If so, do not move crucial data on this
drive any longer before it is completely fixed. Of course, if necessary, also
get another new one for future use.
7).
Hard disk gets uncommon clicking sounds
As a hard disk user, you may already know
it is common for external/internal hard disk to make noisy sounds when it is
running on a PC. However, not all sounds indicate a good drive states. In daily
use, some uncommon noisy sounds, like weird clicking, beeping, grinding,
screeching and others, etc, often can be one of the failing hard disk symptoms.
Hence, also carefully hear the sounds that your PC hard disk generates when
your drive seems to run uncommonly.
Additional
Suggestions:
1).
No matter whether your drive is dying or failing, always make drive data
backups well as soon as possible.
In case of internal/external hard disk data
loss troubles due to suddenly failed/died drive issues, you’d better always
prepare two or more free drives/devices to hold copies of everything important
extracted from this original drive. No matter whether this drive is really
damaged or not, making drive data backups elsewhere could be the first thing
you are supposed to do now. Of course, with data backups stored elsewhere, also
double check them carefully.
2).
No matter what happens, always start drive data recovery software to recover
wanted drive information.
Internal/external hard disk really seems to
be failing or dying, which affects your common access to everything inside? OK!
Do not panic! Only connect this drive to your PC and see whether some harddisk file recovery software can help you recover inaccessible or lost drive
data back.
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