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Boggin:
HDSentinel reports 199 bad transfers on my older laptop but the HDD is fine according to a chkdsk /f - I won't run a chkdsk /r as data can be lost if it finds bad sectors, but you could see what a chkdsk /f reports for you.

While I don't know why it gives those yellow Power alerts, I have similar.

You could contact the vendor to see if it warrants a warranty return because of those bad transfers - I wouldn't expect to see them on a machine still under warranty.

whiggs:

--- Quote from: Boggin on May 22, 2016, 04:13:15 pm ---HDSentinel reports 199 bad transfers on my older laptop but the HDD is fine according to a chkdsk /f - I won't run a chkdsk /r as data can be lost if it finds bad sectors, but you could see what a chkdsk /f reports for you.

While I don't know why it gives those yellow Power alerts, I have similar.

You could contact the vendor to see if it warrants a warranty return because of those bad transfers - I wouldn't expect to see them on a machine still under warranty.

--- End quote ---

Agreed, and here is the strange part: I guess each "HD diagnostic" tool has its own way of measuring the device health, as I have tried HD scan, crystaldiskinfo, HGST drive fitness test, etc, and they all report my drives at different levels of health.  I have a 2 TB drive in my server which I thought was failing due to crystal disk info's flagging of the unreadable sector and current pending sector values which are non-0, but disk sentinel has it at the same level of health as this drive.  In all honesty, I don't know which product offers the most accurate results.  I don't trust any of them at this point.

whiggs:
Hey.  I wanted to give you an update.  So I downloaded the seatools utility (considering my drive is Seagate), and ran the long test, low and behold: failure.  Needs to be sent in for service.  Thanks for the advice

whiggs:
For those in the market for a new computer, do NOT go with an HP product,  Anyone who is posting on these forums I assume has a basic understanding of troubleshooting, which is more that can be said for hp help desk support.  Not only do they love wasting your time having you repeat steps you have already done just to fuck with you, they wanted to make me sit through another extended, 4 + hour long boot time hard drive diagnostic scan with the HP tool, when I had just gotten through performing a 6 hour scan using a tool developed by the actual manufacturer of the faulty device, which in my opinion, trumps whatever hp's shitty little tool says (which of coarse found nothing).  In order to get my device serviced like it needed to be, I actually had to re-create the issue that began this post and add that to the mix before they would finally accept my demand that they follow through with their warranty.  Word to the wise: HP is not the way to go unless you enjoy time wasted and being treated like an idiot or talking to idiots.

Boggin:
You aren't the first to complain about HP's after sales services and this has being going on for a while.

HP also went through a phase which hopefully they addressed, where their laptops suffered from premature motherboard failure - usually just outside of the warranty period.

What I will say in favour of HP though is that when I've been Googling for a repair to a particular problem, HP seem to have a pretty comprehensive online guide for most things with the steps clearly explained.

I bought both my Win 7 Toshiba laptops at PC World in the UK and took out a 5 year extended guarantee on each which over the 5 years have more or less paid for themselves - perhaps not a very good advert for Toshiba laptops that I've had to take both of them in over time for repairs, but I think I've ended up into pocket with perhaps what I would have paid for those individual repairs.

Extended Warranty if the shop offers it is something I think should be considered.

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