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The OP may download bootable Partition Wizard ISO, create a bootable flash drive Using Rufus, boot into it and run Surface Test. This will determine whether the HDD is good or developing defects - bad sectors.
Partition Wizard ISO:
Bootable Partition Manger | MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable Edition (Thanks to Bree for the waybackmachine)
Rufus: Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way
Last edited by jumanji; 31 Jan 2024 at 01:48. Reason: web page corrected
Whilst you could have a play with a live boot disk (i.e. independently of the O/S - which you also mean you could run a surface scan) - absence of the problem would not be definitive proof that it was a Windows issue.I wonder then if any issue with Windows itself is to be excluded completely?
However, that it occurred in Safe Mode suggests it occurs readily.
Try Hard Disk Sentinel just to see if anything is picked up.
Will do, thanks
One last thing, before the PC had any issue I moved a large folder (something like 60 GB of various stuff) which went well and I'm not sure if there might be any correlation with the disk issue; however, after the cut/paste procedure ended I noticed that while the vast majority of the stuff had the creation date unchanged, a few folders had their creation date changed to the cut/paste time.
Didn't think much of it at first, but now I'm thinking I could try to delete those folders to see if they got corrupted in some way which makes the disk go nuts. Does this theory make any sense?
Last edited by fra; 31 Jan 2024 at 09:13. Reason: grammar
No. A check disk /f is to fix logical errors on the file system.
I still think that there is a problem with your HDD.
Read Chkdsk Log in Event Viewer
I do think some bad sectors is most likely it. Still hoping for the quick easy fix though
Thanks for the event viewer link, that will come in handy too
If you'd been using 3rd party disk imaging routinely (in particular Macrium) you would already know the answer to that.
Why? When a disk image is created, Macrium does a CRC check for data integrity as it scans. In one case that flagged early failure of a disk, detecting the problem starting to occur since the previous image.