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Hard Disk Failure in Dell Laptop

 
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SinStar87
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 12:05 am    Post subject: Hard Disk Failure in Dell Laptop Reply with quote

My brother's in school and has had 2 school issued dell laptops have hard disk failures in both. 2 questions, what would be causing this, and what can be done to fix it?
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 2:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What could be causing it:
- Age. The drives could be old.
- Physical damage. They are school computers after all, being dropped, thrown around, etc. could have damaged the drives.
- Bad sectors. The drive could just be wearing down from age (as stated above) causing bad sectors and such.

Fix:
- Replace the drive.

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i bought a seagate 2 tb drive it lasted 27 days and got the click of death everything is made with cheap components in china and places these days nothing is built to last ive still got a working maxtor 40gig about 10 years old its outlasted 4 newer drives your hard drive fails are? clicking wont spin up? totally dead on everything?
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 7:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It has a black screen with cursor, no button combos do anything (ctrl alt delete, shift 5x to get sticky keys, etc) bios diagnostic listed a 1042 error for the hard drive signifying failure.
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 20, 2014 12:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get an SSD drive, they are faster, run cooler and more reliable in my opinion
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

All three of the supported games? And using Wine is as often as not a poor compromise (and don't even get me started on the dirty, rotten, THIEVES at Transgaming). Even when iD and Epic supported Linux in their engines (back in the UT, Soldier of Fortune, Quake 3 days), the window managers of the time didn't cooperate very well with fullscreen apps or yielding mouse control. Honestly, only a fanatic zealot would proclaim that games run better on Linux than Windows (no offense, mate). Game streaming from Windows is the best possible thing that could happen right now for Linux gaming.
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