@Pisthai: Had to do that to my machine a while back. Arctic Silver is the best. @ashish1989: How old is the drive? If it has been used for a while, It very well may be time to purchase a new one. If you're getting bad sectors now, It's only going to get worse over time. :MJ
Not really!! In many cases that's not Hard-Errors, that's just Soft-Errors and those could be fixed. Software like the above mentioned DRevitalize and also HDD-Regenerator are doing an fine job for to 'repair' those Soft-Errors. DRevitalize also showing not just Soft-Errors, it shows Sectors which having read problems and show them as SLOW with an read timing above 150ms! HDD-Regenerator didn't show that, instead the repair of soft-error's is better done by HDD-Regenerator. Good thing by both apps are, they didn't affect any of the existing data and also working regardless of the format etc. I run those apps for all of my HDD's every 3-4 month which simply pay's off! OK, those apps are Payware, what many users didn't liking, but they just do a good job which is really worth the money paid for it!
@pisthai thank u I will apply arctic silver today Also used HDD regenerator today and successfully repaired 15 errors I will use this soft after every 2 months now Is there anything more to do and also plz tell me how to minimize the temp. of CPU
I had screen blackouts and some occasional bsod, the pc would run and then either switch off instantly or the screen goes dark after a while so i had the graphics chip on motherboard reballed and now system has been working ok so far. someone people on ebay are offering the service.
DRevitalize and HDD-Regenerator my butt, that's snake oil, it won't do anything more than what chkdsk /r /f will do.
Because it's trying to move the data in the bad sectors and map them out. As has been said before, replace the drive !
Yes, I agree with my peers. Get a new HDD because is defective and not repairable, you can see this after running the program so get a new HDD. In the meanwhile learn how to physically clean your computer with canned air or whatever, there's a lot of tutorials on this. Remember dust prevents heat dissipation, heat is bad for electronics, then overheating is bad.
Start by getting a new hard disk, as many others have said. There is no software than can cure a failing hard disk.
Your HDD is dying and if you don't replace it very soon then you will lose all your data. I just bought a 500GB HDD off of eBay for $35, the same as the cost of the so called repair software that has been peddled here. I expect that we will soon see another thread with a title similar to, 'My HDD crashed, how do I recover my data'.
As already mentioned there are more than a few things that can cause freezing. I'd just like to emphasize how heating can sometimes be the culprit. I've "repaired" many computers for others simply by cleaning out the dust bunnies, some so thick that the CPU heatsink couldn't even be seen under the crud. I clean my own computers often, yet a couple weeks ago my main computer began periodically freezing or rebooting. My first thought was the power supply, but opening the case revealed a lot more dust than expected. After a little cleaning, the problems haven't reoccurred.