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    Gateway FX notebook and 500gb Scorpio Blue questions

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by thelastgoodbrother, Feb 4, 2009.

  1. thelastgoodbrother

    thelastgoodbrother Notebook Guru

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    I just installed the 500gb Scorpio Blue hard drive into my Gateway Fx-p173 laptop. I am now noticing a clicking sound coming from what I am assuming the hard drive. Is that common? It is mounted in the second bay and isn't setup in any raid configuration. After formatting I put a movie on the drive just to make sure it is working. That being said, its clicking at random on its own. Not a lot, but every so often. Any ideas??

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    My fiancee just called to tell me that the Aspire One that I loaned her now says that there is a corrupt windows file. It prompts her to boot into safe mode, but when she selects that option it starts to load windows and then goes back to the safe mode prompt screen. Any ideas??? I will search the forums further to see if any one else has had this problem. The Aspire is the 120gb running xp. Thanks.
     
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    the clicking is normal, yes. apparently, it affects drives from all brands at random. the noise is from the read heads going into a lock/safe position. nothing to worry about, but i guess if it bothers you, you could return it and see if you get a non-clicking one in return.

    can't help you with the Aspire One, sorry.
     
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  4. TonyZ

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    My 320GB Scorpio black drive made clicking noises when i first got it, its been about 1 month now since i changed it, the clicking has stopped now.
    Maybe the drive just needs a warm-up period before it settles down properly.

    And for the corrupt XP file, sounds like you will need to use a official Windows XP CD to restore the missing file using the recovery feature on the CD.
     
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    I am running Vista Ultimate...is this compatible? What does this actually do? Thanks.
     
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    The Aspire One doesn't have a Recovery CD or CD drive. How would I go about fixing it via a USB?
     
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    The clicking i was getting is when the hdd is parking it`s heads in power saving mode, the hdparm program simply disables the power saving mode, and it is totally in software and will not change anything on your hdd.

    I am using Vista Premium 32bit.

    John.

     
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    What are the downsides, if any to running this app?
     
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    You will not know your hdd is working! :D

    John.

     
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    I also installed the 500gb scorpio blue but it does not show up as an available drive, but when i go to the device manager it is there. I do I access and use it. can i use it as a second drive? thank you for any help
     
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    Use disk management (under computer management) to format the new HDD. You will not see a drive letter until the disk is formatted with one or more partitions.

    John
     
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    you have to format it and assing it a drive letter (ex:c :)
     
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