There are software (even free ones) that do disk cloning which copy the hard disk sector by sector to another disk (new or bigger etc.) The data from reallocated sectors are in the spare sectors and can probably be read easily, only the one pending sector might not be readable.
No, moving/cloning the files from the failing drive would not impact the new drive. It's less risky on a storage/archive drive as there's no complications later from corruption of boot record data and such which render systems not bootable and require fixes and so on. Only by raising the voltage and a few other things back to where they were did it start again. I decided to set all the bios on default, ( I had a light OC ) and it refused to start. Sometimes a program loads and sometime it freezes on load and I have to shut it down.ĭoes anyone know what could be the cause of this? Is my CPU dying? is my Memory bad? is it the HDD? I tried to search the disks for faults but it says it cant locate any, also ran the windows memory diagnostic program without error. Games and other media programs run fine, but it freezes for a few seconds and then back to normal. On the side of all of this, the system suddenly freezes for a few seconds. (Windows is located on my primary drive (C)
After the bios and all that it enters windows very fast, but opening programs is very slow. I rebooted the computer only to see that it also boots real slow. I opened the computer and switched the HDD cables coming from the PSU. I was away for a couple of hours and when I came home, my hdd (D) was disconnected, I tried to start a program which was installed on D and it said it couldn't find the source.