How can i tell if my hard drive is going bad?
466614
run scandisk and make sure you check the option to scan the surface area for physical damage.  If your computer seems to be running slower and there is a kind of grinding noise coming from the drive, it's probably time to replace it before losing all of your data.
684819
I'm sorry to tell you but I think it's dead. The click of doom is never a good sign and if there is fire involved? Hell, you're lucky the damned thing even turned on. You need to get a new hard drive man.
965093
If it isn't automatically detecting it, you'll likely need to manually enter the information.  There should be an option in the bios to manually enter it - you'll likely need to consult your HD documentation to get the drive's geometry so you can input it.
168513
New hard drives are so cheap now that I would not even waste my time debugging the problem. Go out and buy a new cheap drive and give it a shot.
454756
Data can be removed from a bad drive and we do it all the time.  Make sure your jumpers are setup correctly.\n\nCS  Cable Select\nMS  Master\nSL  Slave\n\nThen there is sometimes a jumper for Master with Slave Present, make sure JUMPERS are right.  Boot into BIOS and select detect drives, or just set them for Auto both will work.  If the drive is pooched, we can get your data for you.  Contact info below
140139
The hard drive may have failed. Go in to the BIOS and see if the drive is found.
822802
I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.\nSome hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful
843172
check the cables and power. those are the most likely culprits, especialy if the computer has been moved or jarred.  failing that go into bios and see if the computer recognizes the hard drive as there and can read it.  if you need files from it, attach it as a slave and see if you can access it....if not its probably a screwed pooch from a virus and needs to be replaced.
1016369
sounds like the drive is bad, get a replacement
640495
I would go to C drive in control panel right click on C drive go to properties then tools and do a good defrag and disk check - If disk check finds and fixes just a few bad files all is well. If it finds a bunch - Start saving you pennies and backing up data!!! You can also do the above in safe mode by hitting F8 while windows is booting. This is the more effective way but it also has a little more risk of changing a few files.
741121
If you need to format the hard drive, it may mean you have lost the contents. However there are companies that can recover some or all of your data at a significant fee. Check out http://www.adrdatarecovery.com/g/index.html?gclid=CNX79Lezv4gCFRdDGgodSQ48Aw\n\nIn the mean time try calling Geeks on Call to help you better diagnosis the problem. http://geeksoncall.com/
40245
if you don't want replace this hard drive, the best bet is - do a thorough disk check on it. this will mark all bad sectors and will take them out of use.\nafter you start that disk check you will be requested to reboot the system, do so and let it run.
1053679
Sounds like your hard drive is gettin ready to take a dump, burn all your files that you want to keep before it does!
223356
Input / Output.\n\nIn short getting data in and out of the operating system or cpu from disk and memory.\n\nYou probably have a bad hard drive.\n\n...\n\nBad disks can usually still be partially read from. They are made up of many platters and parts. It may be that only a part of the drive is dead. To know for sure use a disk verification tool, it may be able to map around the bad parts is the drive motor itself is still okay.
563911
ah newbies :-)\n\nif you dont have anything valuable on your Disk, boot up your computer in Dos prompt or Comamnd Prompt or Safe made then open Command Prompt.\n\nWhen your in there run the command \n"Chkdsk" this will scan your C drive for errors.\n\nif it still doesnt work try "fdisk". Its another utility to help "seperate" them. \n\nIf your not comfortable playing around with your computer, start it up regualry, right click C: (or w/e hard drive) Properies tools, Check for Errors or something along those lines it should be under Defragmat. \n\nCheck "fix automatically" \nIt will say "its in use check disc next time the system rebbots"  click yes\n\nnow reboot, you can expect you computer to be doing this for at least an Hour.\n\ngood luck
906343
Maybe your hard drive needs to be de-fragged?
953091
unless you've made changes to your system lately (i.e. reformatting, installed new software, etc.) it is probably a hardware failure and needs to be replaced.  You can see what device manger tells you about the status.  Right click on my computer, select manage, select, device manager, browse to your cd drive and see what it says about the device properties.