Hard Drive Fitness Test

vivaladiva

I suspect the hard drive in an old laptop has had it. I am trying to run a hard drive fitness test on it, and it's taking an age to go through the mechanical analysis - actually I think it may have got stuck. Should it take ages, or can we safely say the hard drive is knackered?
TIA

aerostar

Depending on the size of the drive and how comprehensive the test software is it could take quite a few hours, leave overnight.

Leviathan2009

I would play it safe and back everything up now.

When a hard drives dies, it dies. Word to Word, Crashes to Crashes, Dos to Dos. Rest in PC. Curtains for Windows.

I have lost work before.

vivaladiva

Thank you for your reply. It was supposed to be running a quick test but appears to have frozen. I will give it another try tomorrow. I'm quite resigned to having to replace the drive - it has been rather noisy for some time. Fortunately there is nothing too important on it. Been trying to decide whether it is the hard drive or the fan for a while now.

Leviathan2009

Hey,

It may be your PC cooling system that has issues if its making a noise. I recall a friend who's motherboard was the source of the problems, it was unable to tell the fan to keep the PC at the correct temperature.

Take ur PC to a repair shop.