Hi , so i recently purchased a m17x r3 from one of the users here....and on turning on the machine ...and running crystal disk ...it shows one of the two hard drives state as bad (g state error 1) ...what can i do...or rather what should i do .attached is a snapshot![]()
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Also this morning when i turned off the machine ..it shut down properly but when i came back .....it gave a windows is checking the disk for consistency check (CHKDISK thingie)
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I don't think you really need to worry, it could just be a dodgy sensor, see link below.
S.M.A.R.T. Attribute: G-sense error rate | Knowledge Base
Also you can run the WD hdd error test.
WD Support / Downloads / SATA & SAS / WD Caviar Blue / SE / SE16 (SATA II)
Additional : HD tune Pro , look at the smart data.
http://www.hdtune.com/files/hdtunepro_500_trial.exe -
Awesome... Thanks +rep
Bad Hard disk : Crystal Disk
Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by trooper1414, Jul 6, 2012.