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Originally Posted by mr breeze

i think i'm fixing to lose a harddrive on this downloading machine.
its a 12 year old HP desktop running windows 10 and last week i got a writing error during a download and just now i got a reading error during a download. its on its 2nd or 3rd harddrive.
i know, i need to back up everything which i hope it will work
but can i run checkdisk to save the drive? i used to run that in norton utilities but i dont have that now. i don't even know if windows 10 has that.
any ideas? thanks for any help!
breezey

Get yourself Crystal Disk Info (freeware, Standard Edition is more than enough) and run it.

If any of your drives is marked red - backup everything asap. Share the results (screenshots) if unsure.

It is extremely unlikely that a faulty drive would be "repaired" to trusted state, so if you like your stored data, better get yourself new hard drive.

Note that there are only 3 manufacturers left: Western Digital, Toshiba and Seagate (I personally avoid the latter like a plague - nothing but problems with them, all the Seagates I had so far already landed in a skip).