Is this problem hdd related?

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hi everyone
months ago i started having problems involving blue screens on my win10 (the error code from to Memory Management to System Service Exception or even Faulty Hardware Corrupted Page) weeks ago, another problem started, that being ISDone.dll/unArc.dll returning an error (unable to connect to disk) when trying to install some games, and also the majority of large files i try to download come out to be corrupted (when i know the source of the file ins't corrupt itself). On every start the computer tries to do a repair on the system files, sometimes when the windows has already started a notification pops up suggesting me to restart the PC to repair corrupt system files(even when i do, the message will pop up on the next start).

some things i've tried:
reinstalling the windows (on the first attempts it worked out, but after some blues screens and eventually other reinstallations it stopped solving the DLLs problems)
install the unarc.dll and isdone.dll from the internet (won't solve)
trying to register those dll using powershell (error message about the files not being compatible)
using sfc /scannow, at first it would show the corrupted files were found and repaired (but yet, i still had problems involving the DLLs mentioned) but after some time (and reinstallations of the windows) using the command, the "scannow" will show: Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them.
i also have used chkdsk /r /f .


my setup:
Ryzen 5 1600AF (bought 1 year ago)
RX 570 4gb (bought 2 years ago)
1x Crucial Ballistix 8GB RAM (3 years ago)
1x HyperX 8GB RAM (almost 2 year ago)
1TB HD (can't remember the brand) (3 years ago)

what i think (i'm stupid):

i think it's probably related to the Hard Disk, since the majority of system related to a failing HD are showing up (Blue Screens, Corrupted Files, Windoes Freezing, Taking too long to start up, etc)
I've trying using one RAM at a time, and yet i still had problems, so since i think it's very hard for the two RAM being broken, my suspicions falls to the HD.
 
It very much sounds like data getting corrupted due to a hard drive issue and causing Windows to BSOD.

There might also be a chance that the PSU is at fault and causing the perceived issues.

I'd recommend that you swap to an SSD seeing as it's your boot drive as well.
 
I agree with your conclusion, it is probably the HDD. You could try running the manufacturer diagnostics on the drive to confirm (CrystalDiskInfo can give you smart data, but manufacturer diagnostics are preferable, you could find the model number with device manager).

The RAM is also possible, since if it is faulty you may also see BSODs and file corruption. Are you running it at stock, or with XMP? You could run a memory test to confirm this, or something like Prime 95, though the latter will only help if the RAM is very faulty.
 
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