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Laptop problem

Fuzz3k

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Gotta small laptop problem.

About a week ago, my Lenovo laptop's hard drive started making loud clicking sounds, as the week progressed, the laptop got slower and slower. Wednesday, I got 2 bsods that quickly recovered. Since then, I've been unable to finish updating a game because of a disk write error.

I've tried everything, restarting, hard power offs, even defragged my entire Hard Drive.

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TecaFondo

I'm not an expert, but the clicking sounds mean that the HDD is failing and it may be caused for the malfunction of the disk head, I recommend you to change the HDD now that you can backup the information.

 

I hope I helped you with this info.

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Fuzz3k

I'm not an expert, but the clicking sounds mean that the HDD is failing and it may be caused for the malfunction of the disk head, I recommend you to change the HDD now that you can backup the information.

 

I hope I helped you with this info.

Thanks for the input, I believe that the Hard Drive is failing.

 

Strange part, I scanned it twice for bad sectors and Windows found none, it even keeps saying my hard drive is healthy. Better safe than sorry. Just backed up yesterday.

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MadSprite

Had the same problem except that I dropped my laptop while it was running. Its a mechanical failure rather than a write issue.

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zachman0308

If you do end up upgrading your hard drive, I recommend a Samsung 840- or 850-series SSD. That way you won't have any mechanical failures and Samsung SSDs are known for having a very large number of lifetime writes. They might be a bit more than your budget, but it's worth it in the long run.

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