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    HDD Testing?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by kylerg, Apr 14, 2008.

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    kylerg Notebook Consultant

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    So I hear occasional popping and clicking and I swear it is my notebook's drive. I burned a diagnostic disc, booted into that and ran about 8/10 tests with all passing.

    Anything else I can do to verify? I am about ready to drop some dough on a larger faster drive and wanted to be sure it'll remedy the problem.
     
    kylerg, Apr 14, 2008
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    kylerg Notebook Consultant

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    For those curious and if it provides any info:

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    kylerg, Apr 15, 2008
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    Bumping. I have been told this make have to do with a fan..strange. But the only moving things are the HDD and fans.

    Also, I seem to be missing some of my diagnostics. I can go into one area, but then another area says the partition is missing or empty.


    I did wipe it once before. How do I reinstall that now, or the next wipe or new disk?
     
    kylerg, Apr 17, 2008
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