External HDDs have become quite common these days & given the fact that they are highly portable, they may encounter some rough use from time to time, which can decrease their life-span even more.
In this article, I will tell you how to detect if your hard drive is slowly dying & the steps you need to take to save your important data.
First
- when your computer gets slow or begins to hang frequently or you see the Blue Screen of Death.
- These signs do not appear always due to a dying hard drive but if you encounter these problems after new installation in Windows than it clearly indicates to a malfunctioning of hard drive.
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Second
- Possible reason for hard drive failure is when files do not open.
- You find them corrupted even after they got saved without any errors.
Third
- Huge bad sectors indicates poor health of hard drives.
- Bad sectors are hard drive areas that are automatically masked by the operating system.
- Actually are hard to identify, especially in case of large amount of disk being in used.
Fourth
- If grinding or screeching sound is coming out of your hard drive, the drive may be quite close to dying.
- The repetitive sound is called the ‘click of death’ which is produced by the head when attempting to write & recovering from errors in the process. Grinding sounds are the signs of dying hardware parts like the spindle motor, or bearings.
So always be prepared for something like a hard drive failure. Keeping a backup of your data on another hard drive is a good way to keep it safe as chances of both the drives failing simultaneously are very low.
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