Gaming Strange baffling laptop issue

[Captain_N]

I believe your drive is failing. The drive will need to be replaced. The drive is replaceable its probably a slim 1tb drive. You need to clone the drive and stop using it if you want to save your data. I'm actually cloning my main desktop drive to a new drive as its drive is failing.

 

[bbking67]

so if everything is clean, try removal of any and all anti-virus products. These products employ a "filter" that intercepts calls to the file system.. See what happens and reintroduce later.

You should also selectively disable all external peripherals (one time I i had such a problem and the bad disk was a secondary drive in an external USN enclosure).

whoever recommended installing 360 AV and its reg cleaner (sorry about this to the original post) I would not recommend this at all. these security suites cause more problems than they solve. Sometimes systems that have multiple "cleaners" will be an issue. never use any of these products and especially not "reg cleaners". Do nopt use any ad supported software ever, and install no toolbars or add-ons in your browser.

 

[GunzOfNavarone]

To me it sounds like one or more of the following: bad memory module/not enough memory/bad hard drive/running low on space/not enough system resources available which would suggest something is hogging your CPU bandwidth. You could check the latter in task manager.

 

[kuwanger]

I also agree, you should probably run a memtest. Some BIOSs have a diagnostic mode which will run a 30+ minute memtest as well as HDD test. If not, there's plenty of Linux images you can write to a USB stick and boot memtest from there (systemrescuecd, etc). Got a laptop from a garage sale and ran precisely that to verify that, yes, the HDD was dying.

One thing I do know is that one time I put two HDDs too close to each other and the mutual heat and lack of air flow started producing a lot of errors. Memtest won't check for that, but that's about the only other thing I can think of given your tests results.

 

[Uiaad]

I would gladly put my left testical on that drive being fubar'd

 

[samcambolt270]

One thing I do know is that one time I put two HDDs too close to each other and the mutual heat and lack of air flow started producing a lot of errors.

So, well, the fan in my laptop did stop working, so perhaps overheating is the issue. The laptop was 50c when I ran crystal disk.

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Yeah, overheating will do it. Also a borked ntfs subsystem can cause those issues as well. Malware can do it as well.

 

[Originality]

50C isn’t that high for a laptop. I’ve seen laptops running at 80C.

On the other hand, heat to the drive causes micro vibrations which increases wear on the motor, axle, and potential for the drive header to make contact with the platter (one of the biggest causes for bad sectors and drives going bad). It’s one of the reasons I suggest all laptop users to replace their drives with SSDs.