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Even if you only had your computer for a year or two, in the real world, anything can go wrong from the first day you brought it home until 1 minute after it had been working perfectly for many years.

Whether Windows won't boot to the Desktop, it keeps restarting over and over again in a boot loop, or worse yet, is making a mechanical clicking or clunking sound. If you suspect you have a problem with your Hard Drive, you might be right. But why could it fail so soon?

Environmental Reasons for Hard Drive Failure

Some Hard Drives are just better than others. Some fail prematurely because of operating in hot, humid, salt laden air, or dusty environments, while others still manage to fail in even in cool, clean dry environments. But aside from the obvious reasons a Hard Drive might fail, there is a more likely cause that I see over and over, and is pretty much preventable.

Can Viruses and Spyware Damage a Hard Drive?

Viruses, malware, spyware, adware, rootkits, and trojans can "indirectly" lead to a "hardware" failure such as a bad Hard Drive, but usually through a measure of neglect. You could completely and easily wipe out a virus by just reformatting the Hard Drive and performing a fresh Windows installation, but the average person might not be able to back-up their data from a messed-up Windows installation before wiping it out to reinstall Windows. Its likely that you will find it easier to just take it to a local Computer Repair Shop. I don't have an exact number here, but about 10% of computer repairs in Hawaii, at least at our shop, have bad Hard Drives which need to be replaced.

How Hard Drives Usually Fail

Now lets talk about the somewhat preventable scenario that indirectly leads to Hard Drive failure. When a computer gets infected, and is neglected to the point that Windows freezes, all you can do is hold the power button in until the computer goes off, pull the plug, or like some people with laptops... they pull their battery out. By the way, only when you absolutely have to, the proper way to power-off a frozen computer is to hold-in the power button for 4 seconds until the computer goes off,

However it is that you manage to power-off the computer, this constitutes a "bad-shutdown", which, although necessary, is bad for the Windows installation, and bad for the Hard Drive. Now most of the time, you will probably get away with doing this once in a while, but some users will just keep on trying to use the computer for as long as they can until it freezes again, not realizing the stress they are putting on their Hard Drive until it is too late. In effect, it is virtually the same as having a power outage, which most people would agree could cause a computer to fail, but most people fail to see the correlation.

For some, they have had one too many bad-shutdowns, and by the time they bring it to use for virus and malware removal, it is too late and they find out they need to have their Hard Drive replaced as well. For some, this might also mean a partial or complete data loss as well.

Worst Case Scenario

So because of getting your computer infected and not repairing it right away (if you plan to keep using it), you might find yourself having to pay for the following items:

• Labor (virus and spyware removal, fresh Windows install, etc)
• Parts (hard drive, sometimes a power supply)
• Data Recovery
• New Computer

In the very worst case, you may just buy a new computer and start all over again, but if you don't change your habits that lead to the first failure, the whole scenario is likely to happen again. Computers haven't been around long enough for people to see this pattern, but I can assure you that after repairing computers full-time for many years, it happens all the time. I see the numbers that you don't, so I urge you to take in as many spyware prevention tips as you can and IMPLEMENT them. Teach them to every family member or worker who uses your computer. And as I always say, use top-tier paid AntiVirus and AntiSpyware programs.

Dale Powell Jr invites everyday internet surfers to get more pro-actively involved in your online internet security and computer health. You can begin by reading my Free Report which you can sign-up for at: http://spywarepreventionguy.com

Dale Powell http://gakidooscomputerrepair.com

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How old do you have to be to get your belly button pierced?

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