Go to the Computer Management window (right click My Computer > Manage)
Go to Event Viewer > Windows Logs > System
Look to see if you have any hard drive errors showing up, already. If you are flooded with them, you should be getting a new HDD and making back ups ASAP. Probably should be doing that, anyways.
I'd also highly recommend something other than Seagate. I've had around an 80% failure rate in my personal experience with them in the last 12+ years. I thought I liked them because they were "fast", but [censored], what does that matter when they go bad every 3 years? I've been through at least 10 of them in several different models. Western Digital is the only thing I'll buy, anymore. 0 failures in the few I've had, but they've always went for years until they were no longer practical due to size.
Also, chkdsk doesn't hurt anything. When a disk goes bad, you'll eventually have trouble loading into Windows... period. Chkdsk can short term fix that most of the time.
I've had a lot of experience with bad hard drives. Thanks, Seagate.
Go to Event Viewer > Windows Logs > System
Look to see if you have any hard drive errors showing up, already. If you are flooded with them, you should be getting a new HDD and making back ups ASAP. Probably should be doing that, anyways.
I'd also highly recommend something other than Seagate. I've had around an 80% failure rate in my personal experience with them in the last 12+ years. I thought I liked them because they were "fast", but [censored], what does that matter when they go bad every 3 years? I've been through at least 10 of them in several different models. Western Digital is the only thing I'll buy, anymore. 0 failures in the few I've had, but they've always went for years until they were no longer practical due to size.
Also, chkdsk doesn't hurt anything. When a disk goes bad, you'll eventually have trouble loading into Windows... period. Chkdsk can short term fix that most of the time.
I've had a lot of experience with bad hard drives. Thanks, Seagate.
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