hoofhearted4 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 so ive got an old laptop (4-5 years old) that i was going to give to my girlfriend. i formatted the HDD and went to reinstall Windows 7 (Pro x64) and it tells me it cant install windows because it thinks my Drive is about to fail. so just to see i ran UBCD4Win and ran one of its HDD tools that checked all the blocks. there were about 10 little Red blocks and the Rest were Green. it said 2.1% bad blocks (idk how that ratio comes up at 2.1% though haha). to me, at least Visually, this seems like my HDD is fine. is there something else that could be wrong with the HDD that im not seeing? i told my girlfriend that she should just buy an SSD for the laptop. im giving the laptop to her for free so paying $100 for a 128gb SSD isnt bad, and shes fine with it. shed never fill up the 128gb and having an SSD is better in every respect anyways, so maybe its a blessing in disguise. im just a little confused as to how my HDD is bad, why windows wont install to it, and why that little test didnt show me that my HDD was all that bad. just hoping to learn a little bit. thanks all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan3345 Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 (edited) Maybe the controller is bad? I don't really know, but if windows is telling you the drive is bad, it will probably save you some time and pain later to just replace it now before she installs everything on it and it fails. Edited January 5, 2013 by Dan3345 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted January 7, 2013 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 i have to buy another HDD anyways (actually talked her into buying an SSD). i cant install Windows period. if i try and do it, it stops at 36% and fails after several hours of being stuck there lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 It's not even worth trying, if you do get it on there Windows is not likely to run properly and the drive may well fail anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted January 7, 2013 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 like i said, i cant anyways. Windows wont let me i was only trying tio find out why Windows was telling me it was failing even though the Test told me i was mostly fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vagrant0 Posted January 8, 2013 Share Posted January 8, 2013 like i said, i cant anyways. Windows wont let me i was only trying tio find out why Windows was telling me it was failing even though the Test told me i was mostly fine.Because "mostly fine" isn't good enough for an OS since the OS is extremely dependent on files being in a specific place and working properly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoofhearted4 Posted January 8, 2013 Author Share Posted January 8, 2013 yea, i figured as much. lol oh well, as i said maybe its a blessing in disguise. shell get an SSD out of the deal anyways :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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