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mattymad posted...

Hard drives are weird. It entirely depends on the kind of read/writing it had over its life time - which is pretty impossible to tell. Plus, they can get issues which slowly degrade it's health. Like imagine it was slightly offset, every time the arm seeks, it slightly scratches the surface of the disk. Over time, it destroys more and more of the hard drive before rendering the whole thing unusable.

That's just one example too. They can die. Sometimes its physical, sometimes it's the controllers, etc, etc. HDDs have a lot of moving parts and in engineering, they often say, the more moving parts, the more things can go wrong. You could slightly drop it, bang it, knock it, etc. and it'll break it. You shouldn't move them whilst they're on either. SSDs you can move fine.

When you said your "desktop is on D" do you mean your Windows install is? I would definitely look at installing Windows to a fresh SSD and backing up any important data. Your page file (the thing I mentioned earlier) will be on D if Windows is. The Page File is written/read a lot constantly by Windows, if there are any delays in reading/writing it, you'll get a total computer hang.

No. Windows is on C. But I dont remember why my desktop is on D. Like when it didnt find D I had no desktop, no icons etc. Could still use things like Firefox which was open.

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