Hard Drive Problem

[dannyk13]

AVAST ran a diagnostic check on my laptop which showed my hard drive's health at 50%.
1. What does this mean?
2.Can anything be done to improve it?
Plain English please, I am a technophobe.

[dannyk13]

Manged to type it in ,but got message 'no items match your search'

[Old_Geezer]

I think, get someone PC savvy to look at it for you.

[dannyk13]

It's booked in for a new hard drive etc next Tuesday,Thanks for trying.

[Buenchico]

I'm confused because I've never heard of Avast checking hard drives and I can't find any relevant Google references to it doing so.

Run CHKDSK to see if it finds any problems:
https://neosmart.net/wiki/chkdsk/

[bhg481]

Don't forget to ask for your old drive back so that you can be sure it's disposed of securely.
Also, as I said earlier, think about increasing the size of disc or replacing it with SSD - either option is no more work, so the extra cost will only be for the different disc.

[dannyk13]

Buenchico//I'm confused because I've never heard of Avast checking hard drives //
I contacted Avast about getting a freeze-up while running a full virus check. The technician ran a diagnostic check which revealed the 50% health of my hard drive.