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    Alienware M17x R3 - Hard Disk Giving Error

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by thebetaguy, Dec 19, 2012.

  1. thebetaguy

    thebetaguy Newbie

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    I have an Alienware M17x. I have installed Windows 8 64 bit on it.

    My Hard Disk is now giving error on Boot. I have to reboot 3-4 times for it to start otherwise it just keeps saying "Boot Device Missing".

    My computer has become too slow - and my HD utilization is close to 100% always.

    What to do?



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    thebetaguy, Dec 19, 2012
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  2. Joe85

    Joe85 Notebook Deity

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    Ok, few questions, Are you booting in the correct order? On start, keep hitting F2 to enter BIOS and check you boot order. Adjust if necessary.

    Are you running in Raid configuration? make sure, in BIOS>Advanced Option> IDE configuration> Make sure your at either RAID, ATA or ACHI. I use ACHI as i have and SSD and a 750GB HDD. The SSD is my OS drive but is in slot 2 so i had to re arrange the boot order so my laptop booted from slot 2.

    Since your It looks like you are RAID as i only read the first line, lol, looks like a bad HDD.
     
    Joe85, Dec 19, 2012
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  3. radji

    radji Farewell, Solenya...

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    According to the screenshots, it says your running RAID 0. And from the error message, looks likes drive 1 has gone bad. You can always pull both your hard drives and plug them into a desktop and see if the RAID volume shows up in Windows then. If it does, backup all the data from your RAID volume. If it doesn't, then there's not much that can be done. You can try entering into the Configuration Utility and resetting the drives to normal, but that will all but guarantee to lose your data.
     
    radji, Dec 21, 2012
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