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HDD Failure?

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Cam

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My friend recently did a clean install of Windows 7 and he started to get a lot of BSOD's. These BSOD's could not be reproduced, and the crash dump was different every time. The RAM was fine. He eventually reinstalled Windows Vista, however, his computer was still running slow. I then decided to download HDTune onto his system and do some tests. First thing I did was run some benchmarks, and the result was, well, I'll let the image do the speaking:

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...Rather surprising. No?

Is this irrefutable evidence that the HDD is failing, or is there something software-related that could cause this? I ran a quick error scan and nothing came up, so now I am having him run a normal error scan, however, I think this is good evidence that would suggest HDD failure. What do you guys think? :confused:
 
I have experienced problems like this with Controller cards on dying Motherboards.

The problem cant be 'too' extreme if you can start up and run a quick or full scan in HDTune.

Run a full check of the drive:
Run > 'cmd' > 'chkdsk c: /f /r /v'
- (Open runcommand, [/f] is fix [/r] is repair [/v] is verbose)
and see if it has any bad sectors upon completion (in the summary).
 
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