# HELP ! is my hard drive dead?

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**Created:** [May 13, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-is-my-hard-drive-dead/189095 "2006-05-13T16:16:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![sebus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@sebus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sebus)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-is-my-hard-drive-dead/189095/1 "2006-05-13T16:16:15Z")

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this morning I noticed AVG virus scan was running and found 22 viruses - they were related to java that’s all I remember. So when It was done scanning, I noticed everything seemed to run slower. I restarted my pc and got a blue screen ☹ then I restarted again and it said something about file record segment is unreadable. I went into my other drive which also had issues and I tried to go into my main drive but it says it’s not formatted ☹ Is this it for the hard drive ? if it is, do you recommend a maxtor or WD ?