This depends a lot on which type of hard drive that your computer has installed. More often than not this will occur with a HDD (hard disk drive), but can happen on other types of hard drives as well.
Examples of certain signs to look out for-
-When your computer starts to slow down.
-Files or programs are corrupt on the device.
-When you check the performance of the hard drive on the task manager and it shows that your computer is running 100% of the hard drive.
-Your computer blue screens on boot.
-Your computer starts to make sounds that don’t sound right.
-And many other examples.
Below is a link to a Techspot Article that further goes over signs of a hard drive failing.
https://www.techspot.com/article/2136-five-signs-storage-fail/
