Im not completely sure about sectors but i had an 80gb drive a while ago that made a clicking sound when i tried to copy/read one of the files on it, if that was a bad sector then i dont think this is the same. When it crashes its like the power is disconnected from the drive, Theres no noise or anything like the laptop isnt on. I checked the boot screen but didnt find any diagnoses tool, only recovery, bios and boot selection. Thanks for the link i'll look at that now. I tried a hard drive monitor and the drive was running at over 40C, is that too much for a hard drive?
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I just tried seatools to test the drive, i started a short test and it found nothing so I tried a long test, it got to 4% then the screen froze, the hard drive stopped and now windows won't start so I'm waiting for the laptop to cool down now.
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The laptop is cool now and it still won't boot so I'm trying startup repair.
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Sorry for posting so much. Startup repair worked. Testing the drive made it worse so is there anything else i could try? Thanks for the help.