System randomly freezes yet mouse still moves
- by user784446
This problem has lasted for the past 48 hours. The first time it happened, a program I was running stopped responding, so I tried to end it from task manager. The processes at first were listed fine until hovered upon. Eventually, despite the mouse still being able to move, after a few persisting clicks the mouse finally stopped moving. The screen went blank shortly thereafter.
The second time it occurred, items on the screen stopped responding - hovering over the taskbar or such wouldn't elicit a response. Sound would still play however. Eventually, the mouse became unresponsive and the system restarted itself.
I suspect that it may be a problem of my SSD drive. After looking through some Google search results, I downloaded HDTunePro to determine if there's a problem with the drive. Results returned a problem of reallocated sector count. An error scan also revealed 48 bad sectors.
Also, an attempt to backup the contents of the most important areas of the drive returned a few explorer "Error: cannot read source from disk" errors.
Should I ditch the drive and use another drive or is there anything that can be done to repair the drive?
SSD: OCZ Petrol 64gb
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 640
RAM: Generic 3GB DDR2
Motherboard: Gigabyte MA74GM-S2H
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
Thanks!
