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New Laptop hard drive is clicking
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Mar 15, 20261461 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Ive got a new laptop and the hard drive keeps clicking randomly and sporadically. I've ran Check Disk and there were no bad sectors. I've also tried HD Tune (and others) to check the health of the HDD and everything is ok. Could the HDD still be on the verge of failing even though there were no bad…
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I'm not saying it is this, I'm just saying it could be. There is such a phenomenon called the Click of death (Link to wikipedia page, with a sound recording) which precedes drive failure. Generally it's a read / write error during seek (according to…
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