[PC] - HDD just died

[Harrison]

I expect because you were downloaded such large torrents that it encounters a specific region on the disk with bad blocks, causing all this. The faulty part might have been there some time.

It is good that you had warnings and time to access it and act.

It is possible with hdd tools to scan through a disk and mark bad blocks as off limits, so the disk can be partitioned and formatted ok again. Personally though I would remain worried that more of the disk would fail later.

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[Demon Cleaner]

I ordered an SSD now, and got it today. Windows is giving me now messages every 5 minutes that the disk in question is faulty. I wanted to buy an SSD anyway at some point, so I will move my C: partition to it, then use that one as a replacement for the dead HDD, and just use the SSD as C: partition. I won't have time to build it in this week, but it will be the first thing I do next week, probably Monday.

I bought a Samsung 840 Pro 256, seems to be reliable and one of the fastest SSDs on the market. It got best reviews everywhere, only negative point it almost got everywhere, was the a bit too high price, but it's not that much more.

http://www.samsung.com/us/computer/m...ge/MZ-7PD256BW

[Demon Cleaner]

Btw, the SSD is running since some weeks now. Booting is over 10x faster, but I barely reboot my PC, it's running 24/7. Programs also start a lot faster, but otherwise, I don't use an SSDs full potential.

[Harrison]

An SSD is really at its best used just for the OS, for fast booting as you say. Remember to move the Windows virtual memory cache off from the SSD to another drive, otherwise it will great reduce the life of the SSD with the constant rewrites.

[Demon Cleaner]

I don't use any page file at all anymore, since nowadays we have a lot of RAM, it's not needed.

[Harrison]

True, except Windows still likes to have access for certain things sometimes, and some (badly coded software) expects it. Older games can sometimes complain or just crash f.ex.