Know the Symptoms of a corrupted Hard Drive

Overheating hard drive: It is usually difficult to note when the hard drive is overheating. In the case of PCs, the hard drive is under a casing that covers the CPU unit hence, noticing an overheating hard drive becomes difficult. The way this is noticeable is by touching the case and finding out whether it is hot. In most cases, overheating occurs because of problems with the fan. The fan is supposed to cool the hard drive when it is running. In case you have never known, the hard drive emits heat when it is running and also it is electrical. The fan is supposed to cool it so that the internal components of the hard drive do not expand. If overheating occurs it may cause the internal parts of the hard drive to expand and then some of them come into contact with each other and then as the platters (disks) are spinning, one can hear click sounds. Therefore, if the fan is not working, it would be good to have it repaired or replaced or else your hard drive may get damaged and you may lose your data.

Presence of bad sectors on the hard drive: By running the system utility programs, one can be able to know whether the hard drive contains bad sectors. Some of the utility programs are like chckdsk and scandisk utility programs. They usually check whether the hard drive is in good condition. These system utility programs reports on the scan they have done and also display the bad sectors of the hard disk drive. These utility programs usually come with the operating system software. If the programs happen to show a large section of bad sectors, then it means that the hard disk is failing and data could be lost.

Freezing and Hanging of the system: A computer is said to hang when a user is unable to issue any more instructions to it and even hardware, such as the mouse fail, to navigate on the screen. Freezing/ hanging means that there exist bad sectors on the hard drive and thus, the computer is unable to read them. Since it is unable to read the bad sectors, the computer is unable to conduct the necessary transaction of reading a particular file or loading a particular program.

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