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Laptop HDD Sparky Crackling Sound
Recently my new laptop started producing this sparky, "electric" sound that is coming from hdd. It starts, I think, when the laptop warms a bit. Also my laptop becomes slow ( I guess, same reason). I'...
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Should I trust a hard drive from a dropped laptop, that spontaneously started working again?
A month or so ago, my sister dropped her laptop (an HP Pavilion DV7 running Windows 7), and after that the machine would no longer boot -- at power-on it would just display a message: "a disk read ...
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Disabling HP 3D driveguard?
Laptop model: HP dv7t-7000, 1TB 5400rpm Hdd
First off, i know how to disable hp 3d driveguard protection, my question is whether it is a good idea in the following situation:
I will be recording ...
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Hard disk ticks when laptop is idle
I have an about 3 years old laptop, but very well maintained, and it stared a few weeks ago making a quit tick when it's idle. It sounds like an hard disk tick. It's really rare, it happens 3-4, max 5 ...