Is the hard drive bad?

I have a older dell computer, and everytime it starts to load windows it would freeze, so I reinstall windows and it worked fine, the drivers installed fine etc etc, after a few days of turning on and off and working around it started to freeze again and again, so after restarting and putting "last known config" It started but as soon as it reached the desktop it froze once more... I replaced the psu ram and other goodies could it be the hard drive or CPU?

If you can get the computer to work well enough you can test both HD and CPU

CPU Stress Test www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/100352-cpu-stress-test-prime95.html

Test Hard Drive HD Diagnostic or this test Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools and Utilities (Storage) - TACKtech Corp.

For the HDD, you can run chkdsk /f /r in elevated Command Prompt -- that will fix bad sectors and repair it. But it could also be something else, e,g. a RAM stick. Take one stick out and run only on 1 stick (assuming you have 2). Then try the other one.

You might want to check for driver conflict as well as the above

I tired the ram etc, and the check disk it would work with the check disk then it would freeze again after a few hours of surfing and sitting, Honestly after I took the hd out and kinda shook it a bit I heard a sound I thought hds are supposed to be solid I know it has moving parts but it shouldnt make sound?

If it id a SSD, it is solid. But HDDs have moving parts - shaking is not a good cure. It could lead to a head crash.

But since zou problem occurs onlz after a certain amount of time. it could be a defunct PSU or overheating. I would check that with CoreTemp.

I replaced the psu 4 times and they all seem to do it, and the core temp doesnt seem to hot, Im going to put a new paste on it, and try it again, I dunno whats going on lol, the heatsink isnt so hot to the touch but who knows.

Make sure none of the 4 little feet of the heatsink is defective. If they are in plastic, they have a tendency to melt away.

Hi,

Please download and run this program, which checks the health of your hard disks:

CrystalDiskInfo - Software - Crystal Dew World

Post back an image if you can, so we can look at that.

Regards,
Golden