how can i find out if my hard drive is messed up?
607865
Replace the hard drive, if it fixes the problem then you know that they hard drive was messed up, if not, then you got a whole different problem...Good Luck.
1037140
i think your extrernal HDD  have badsecters, pls run scandisk
842802
Reinstall the drive and program with a cd if you have one or go to control panel and look for it
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.
1012468
Did you try using a new cable for the hard drive ? If you are using an add-on display card, try the onboard display card and see if that makes a difference.\n\nIt would be better if you reinstalled Windows. This would help to clear the possiblity of system files being damaged.
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.
54956
have you checked the remaining space on the hard disk ?
47870
your hard disk might have developed some bad sectors, or there is some problem with your file system.\n\nRun a complete scan on your hard disk, it can solve your problem.
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
478766
Shut pc down, open the case and take out the drive, check for anything unusual, if not install it back but double check the data cable(wide flat one, red line on 1 side), see if it catches all the pins from the drive, cause some drive does not have bracelet to hold the plug from cable, you might missed some pins.\nIf still not, update antivirus and anti spyware then do full system scan.
415708
i think you mean you have 4 bad sectors on you hard drive -\n\nuse the CHKDSK /p /r from a dos prompt\n\nthis will scan your disk and repair any bad sectors
1077865
What I would do is re-install Windows and all your software on the new HD and slave your current crashed HD without formatting see if you can recover any data from it.  Here are instructions on HD installation. http://www.basichardware.com/HowTo_Install_Hard_Drive.html
214707
No need to worry if u didn't used that partition after formating or if u have deleted a partition. There is a good software which is also free. It is called PC inspector File recovery. I am sure that it will help u. Here is a link
127790
Depending on your PC, you might want to go into the event viewer under the System log to see if it is running any errors.  Depending on your PC, there might be hard drive diagnostics that you can run.  Clicking does not give me a warm fuzzy.  Good luck.
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/
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try checking ur disk by using chkdsk on ur drive \nor alternatively have the recovery console for that operatign system
714300
Hmm, this could be any number of problems.\n\nYour best bet is to get someone experienced to take a little look. They will know what the problem is and how to fix it.\n\nIt doesn't necessarily mean that your hard drive is damaged or needs replacing - It could be something like a damaged partition table (which means you lost your files, but the drive is physically still usable). Or it could be bad sectors, a damaged MBR (easily repaired with 'fdisk /mbr' or anything else.\n\nDon't worry just yet. See what an expert has to say...\n\nJ