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Notebook freezes
Shane:
What it sounds like is that the hard drive is bad.
When I say dropped out I mean that it stop responding. Which would explain the freezes, the hard drive light stops blinking and why the chkdsk was never finishing.
In other words it is time for a new hard drive :wink:
Shane
Nomad:
Hi Shane
Thank you again for your hint.
Let me report a couple of things:
1) I ran today a chkdsk D: /r (the data HD of this same notebook); it stopped too, at "37 percentage concluded. (14345466 from 47729176 free clusters processed)".
2) I have this machine for almost 6 years and I ran chkdsk C: /(r or f) several times before (and at least once chkdsk D: /r or f). As I can recall, for C: it concluded just once (may be at the third attempt, or more), but for D: it didn't ever concluded.
3) About once a month I run "Disk Doctor" from Iobit's Advanced SystemCare; most times it says there are problems for C:, but the last time, about 2 weeks ago, it said there were no problems found; for D: it always said there were no problems.
Can you give me a comment about this?
And finally, in case I must find a new hard drive, what specifications do I have to consider, as, I think, I will not find exactly the same make/model?
Nomad
Boggin:
You could Google for HDD replacement for your make & model of computer and even if the model is discontinued, there will be one to fit even if you have to contact the computer vendor's parts dept.
Shane:
Is the D: drive on the same hard drive though? In other words the current hard drive is simply partitioned into two, so you get drive C: and D:. Most laptops only have 1 hard drive so that is most likely it, and so you see the same problem with D: using chkdsk.
So yes a new drive is in order.
Your drive should be a standard laptop sata hard drive. Unless it is really old and it is the old school IDE drives.
If it is the sata then any new sata laptop drive will do the job, but if you want to make the system 10 times faster, spend a little extra and get a SSD drive.
The samsung Pro 550 comes with a crazy 10 year warranty.
The hard drive is the bottleneck of performance on a system, so when you boot up and such you are waiting on the hard drive. A SSD is so much faster than a normal drive that your system will feel worlds faster. It will be, with anything hard drive related. The CPU and memory are still the same of course :-)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147360
Shane
Nomad:
Thanks Boggin and Shane
My notebook has 2 hard drives, one with 2 partitions (C:, OS and software, and E:, a recovery partition) and the other drive (D:) is single-partitioned, for data; both have the same capacity (320 GB each).
Yes, they are both SATA/300 (Toshiba MK3252GSX).
I like your advice about the SSD, except for... the price.
Anyway, as this present situation seems constant for the last 6 years, may be it will last another 6 years, and then, if I will have to replace the HDs, prices of SSDs will be much lower :smiley:.
But yet, what do you think: the dropping out happens when bad clusters are starting to be read, or the real cause can be of different nature?
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