Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Computer Help and Support

Afromania

(2,808 posts)

1. Sounds like your hard drive might be going bad.

Reply to CatWoman (Original post)

Thu Sep 7, 2017, 10:28 PM

Sep 2017

usually you can disable the notices, I'll take a look at how to do it; but you should definitely back up anything important because once a drive starts going bad its only a matter of time before it goes poof.

EDIT: Egnever is right, you probably shouldn't turn off the notice, but I know how annoying they can be.

download this and run it and it will tell you the health status of your drive(s)
http://crystalmark.info/redirect.php?product=CrystalDiskInfoInstaller

Edit history

Please sign in to view edit histories.

Recommendations

0 members have recommended this reply (displayed in chronological order):

12 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

Can someone please help me in disabling this notice I receive before booting into Windows? [View all] CatWoman Sep 2017 OP

Sounds like your hard drive might be going bad. Afromania Sep 2017 #1

Not sure how to disable it, but it may be a warning that your drive is failing. cos dem Sep 2017 #2

this desktop is just over 5 years old CatWoman Sep 2017 #10

agree with afro exfthings Sep 2017 #3

yup, you can get a solid 1TB drive for roughly that. Afromania Sep 2017 #6

unless a certain OP would want to upgrade to SSD? exfthings Sep 2017 #7

Yeesssss, so much goodness in SSD. Afromania Sep 2017 #8

Do you have any kind of disk repair utility? lastlib Sep 2017 #4

That is an indication your hard drive is starting to fail. Egnever Sep 2017 #5

you guys have been extremely helpful CatWoman Sep 2017 #9

Dell has its own suite of system checking utilities. Denzil_DC Sep 2017 #11

thank you so very much Denzil CatWoman Sep 2017 #12