How do you know when a HDD is going to die?

[RoninBlade]

I am using this Hard Disk from last 3 years and now i guess i have to change my hard disk in some time. Actually there is no problem with this hard drive but i just want to know that what are the symptoms that you get when your hard drive is about to be dead. Exactly when your hard drive gets dead or what are the reasons for hard drive becoming dead.

[T.J.]

It's easy to test everyone, by the front (the side and possibly elsewhere) in the case of any openings close to, and depends only on one slot behind the hard drive, remove the cover. That makes some difference of degree, since then most of this is exactly where the cool air into the case and about the disk flows, to be blown back out again. It can be established as the cool, incoming air via disk sensor to measure and even feel with your finger. So wet your fingertip and before the opening. Have already tested it yourself and you can feel the train at the open aperture.

[deoWo]

I have given some symptoms as follows which i was getting when my system's hard drive got dead.

• Blue-screens with repeating error mesages such as "bad pool header" "pen list corrupt", ntfs.sys, sys32k ... oxoooooo5 ox000008 etc.
• My antivirus is regularly deactivates when I start my computer
• my computer told me several "access violation" on my antivirus "antivir" and "spybot search and destroy".
• My windows internet explorer and firefox shut by themselves regularly and then blue screen. I can not go on the internet over an hour each time.

[Killen]

To my knowledge there are no signs -> do backups. It may be full as an egg, or fragmented as it is not allowed. It can also be your antivirus which mixes everything that happens and that slows everything. When I along with him large quantities of files (like 10 000), before I stop my antivirus. Or you may face some bad sectors on your hard drive which may lead in dead hard drive in future.