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Are these the results of a bad hard drive from CrystalDiskInfo?
So I was having a problem with my laptop running really really slow. No viruses/malware/etc... I suspected it was the hard drive. I downloaded some software I can't locate, that confirmed the issue.
I purchased a used hard drive from eBay and the laptop is running better, but I can tell it's not running as it should. So I also suspect this hard drive is bad seeing I bought it used. Can anyone tell me from the info that is shown on the screen shot, taken from the progoram CrystalDiskInfo means the drive is bad?
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- ?Lv 76 years agoFavorite Answer
the results indicate that the drive is good. It been used for a total of 1061 hours which isn't a lot.
- 6 years ago
Start with CHKDSK. It's a MS Windows utility which checks your drive. The link is somewhere in a menu but it's easy to run from the Command Prompt. Type "CMD" (no quotes) in the start search box. In the popup window, type "CHKDSK /f" (no quotes) and press enter. Windows will check your drive but can not fix hardware errors.
In Windows under Administrator Tools, open Event Viewer. Expand Custom Views, and read Administrative Events.
If you see a lot a red 'disk' or 'IO errors' you know your drive is bad.
(You may see a lot of other red and yellow errors which indicate the true nature of your problem.)
The raw values for Reallocation Event Count and Uncorrectable Sector Count in your SMART data are zero which is good. Temperature is a bit weird but that may be incorrect.
