Backing up the hard drive

Re: Backing up the hard drive

That’s the thing, there’s no BSOD (at least not long enough for me to actually see it or even get any kind of hint of it). Ironically, the last time I remember it happening (in front of me) was when I was about to click on a link of how to backup the hard drive. What has me convinced that it’s a failing HDD is the sounds the drive makes at time.

It first started Saturday night, after I downloaded a game and played it for a few hours. It just restarted in the middle of the game, then wouldn’t start up again until after I turned it off and did a system restore. It’s starting up now, but restarts at random, and then doesn’t even go into the checkdisk process, which otherwise starts up when I turn off the computer without going through the shutdown process.