does this mean HDD is toast?

[vsboxerboy]

So, it's the holidays, or as most of us probably know it, a time when we come home and the family needs their computers fixed. Looking at this spyware/virus/whatever gummed up machine and I decided to just backup, and reinstall windows fresh. This thing is pretty old but not ancient but two things happened:

1. A good amount of files could not be copied over (probably 6 out of 40 gb) due to some sort of error and then the drive would become unresponsive and I would have to restart the computer. I threw the drive into an external enclosure and hooked it up to my machine, but I still get the same result. Those files weren't important, so I moved on and am now trying to install windows which brings me to

2. When formatting the drive I opted for the non-quick format and it has now become stuck. I'm going to try and restart into my windows drive and do a scan of the drive, but should I even bother with this or is it likely that the drive may die soon or what could even cause that to happen...

 

[vsboxerboy]

errrrrrrrrrr nm. it just jumped up about 8% and now seems to be formatting at a rate of about 1 or 2% per minute.

wow i hate old computers.

 

[axan]

the drive is prob has dead sectors and/or is dying. You should check it with wd windlg, bart smart disk.

 

[vsboxerboy]

the drive is prob has dead sectors and/or is dying. You should check it with wd windlg, bart smart disk.

That it was.

Bought a new HDD and was able to backup most everything. I didn't realize the drive was dying until I got a boot error and ran gparted which told me that there were errors. I *thought* the drive seemed awful loud, but I just shrugged that off as an old drive. The 160GB segate 7200.10 was incredibly lighter than the 80GB drive it replaced.