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    How to test hard drive on N71Q?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Fragster, Jul 25, 2010.

  1. Fragster

    Fragster Notebook Consultant

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    Hi Guys

    Bought this about 4 months ago and it's worked fine without a glitch till recently.

    My unit came with dual 7200 SATA hard drives and I'm using the second drive for all my pics/movies. Since last week, windows would stop seeing the second drive for no reason. Then all of a sudden, even without a reboot, it'd come back.

    I looked in the bios and didn't see any build-in diagnostic tool to test hard drives. Is there any other way I can test this? Without having to send the HDD back to Asus/XoticPC?

    Appreciated.
     
    Fragster, Jul 25, 2010
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