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Every now and then, my computer randomly freezes(when turning it on or logging off) yesterday, my GTA froze so I signed out and it froze, I held down the power button and turned it off, waited a minute and turned it back on and it kept going into recovery mode.(freezes in recovery mode aswell)
Could this be a problem with Windows 8 its self or the actual Hard Drive causing the problem?
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If the computer freezes randomly, I'm sure it is about the HDD.
Most likely, your HDD have bad sectors, which makes the HDD to freeze while trying to read / write on them.
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I was thinking that. The problem that I have is, if I reset the whole Hard Drive - install a fresh Windows 8 on it and get rid of the one that already came with the harddrive, would it continue to do it, or is it worth getting a new hard drive?
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I'm not really a expert in HDD maintenance, so I seriously cannot give you a 100% sure advice.
However, every time you use the HDD, bigger chances you have to see more bad sectors.
And formatting the hard drive doesn't fix the problem.
One of the ways to fix it is avoiding the OS to use those bad sectors[I know it is possible, not sure how]
Other, is buying a new HDD.
Anyways, the best thing you can do is to talk with a someone specialized in computer maintenance, and talk with him about the HDD problem, and what you can do.
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Broken HDDs can make the game crash, or stop windows from booting, but they dont freeze the complete system.
Theres an incredible large amount of things that can cause this problem. Pretty impossible to say anything but that its either a hardware or a software problem without more information. When it freezes during power on, when exactly does it freeze? While windows is loading, or even during the bios boot phase?
A list of your hardware also would help.
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Sometimes when the computer is loading(the dots go round in a circle) it freezes then, and some other times it freezes randomly(when the desktop is loading). I left the computer off for 12 hours and it started working again.
Though, I don't want to have to keep leaving the computer off when I need to go on it.
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If you can get it to boot run a SMART test, crystaldiskinfo might help the issue.
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I've done that before, it froze. My friend had the same problem and he said he bought a new one and it stopped. Possibly my only way to go. Thanks for the help!
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The reason why getting a new HDD often helps is that you reinstall windows then, and so fixing any bad software problems. The HDD itself barely is causing freezes. So before wasting some money Id rather try a fresh windows installation on your current hdd.
