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    HDD Click and no boot - G73JH

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by cotolay, Mar 4, 2011.

  1. cotolay

    cotolay Notebook Evangelist

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    The HDD on my G73 started to make clicking noises, and then windows froze. I restarted it and it wasn't detected by bios "no bootable device found" after 2 or 3 resets it has now detected it and its running again. Am i safe? what should i do?
     
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    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    Were they loud clicks? That could be a sign of failure. What kind of drive(s) do you have?

    Load up a SMART utility and see if any problems are detected.
     
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    cotolay Notebook Evangelist

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    where can i find smart utility? The clicks where not that loud. Really low. It is running fine now, i am backing up things into the other HDD.
     
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    For windows I actually have no idea what a good utility is anymore, but there's a list here: Comparison of S.M.A.R.T. tools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    These may be worth a shot:
    Active@ Hard Disk Monitor Freeware. SMART & HDD usage control.
    PassMark DiskCheckup - SMART hard drive monitoring utility

    In any event you'll probably want to run a disk check:
    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Check-your-hard-disk-for-errors
    http://www.w7forums.com/use-chkdsk-check-disk-t448.html
     
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