Hi Guys,
Sorry for long story but please read (need ur help urgently) -
I have a Dell Alienware 14x which was working perfectly from two years and gave me no issues at all. But 3 days ago I left in ON overnight to download some stuff (placed it on cushion) and in the morning it failed to turn on. i tried safeboot, system restore etc but no luck. In smart test it told me that my hard disk has failed. I tried reinstalling the windows, removed the bad sectors by all kind of formats but still the performance was going down drastically.
After starting the laptop I installed HD Sentinel Pro which showed me performance = 100%, but Health = 2% and lifetime left = 2 days. The relocate sector count was quite high and I was getting all sorts of error messages. I thought It might be due to overheating as I placed in on a cushion over night.
Then i bought a new drive Seagate 500 GB and installed OS and then HD Sentinal Pro. At this stage both performance and health was 100%. But as I was installing the softwares & drivers I observed that relocation sector count starts to increase. In 2 days the count went from 0-5 and health went down to 97%.
Now I am really getting worried. Even though there are no bad sectors when I run chkdsk command but still the count has increased from 0-5 in 5-6 hours of use. And the worst thing is I don't know the reason. Please can anyone tell me if i need to worry at this stage or what can I do to save my hard drive.
I am into IT industry myself so I regularly fragment, run ccleaner etc to maintain my OS but not sure what is causing this. The only reason I can think of is overheating as I live in quite hot conditions and my hard disk temp is always around 45 degrees C. But my other laptops are running perfectly and has 0 relocation sector count.
Can any other component in my laptop affect my relocation sector count??
Sorry for long story but please read (need ur help urgently) -
I have a Dell Alienware 14x which was working perfectly from two years and gave me no issues at all. But 3 days ago I left in ON overnight to download some stuff (placed it on cushion) and in the morning it failed to turn on. i tried safeboot, system restore etc but no luck. In smart test it told me that my hard disk has failed. I tried reinstalling the windows, removed the bad sectors by all kind of formats but still the performance was going down drastically.
After starting the laptop I installed HD Sentinel Pro which showed me performance = 100%, but Health = 2% and lifetime left = 2 days. The relocate sector count was quite high and I was getting all sorts of error messages. I thought It might be due to overheating as I placed in on a cushion over night.
Then i bought a new drive Seagate 500 GB and installed OS and then HD Sentinal Pro. At this stage both performance and health was 100%. But as I was installing the softwares & drivers I observed that relocation sector count starts to increase. In 2 days the count went from 0-5 and health went down to 97%.
Now I am really getting worried. Even though there are no bad sectors when I run chkdsk command but still the count has increased from 0-5 in 5-6 hours of use. And the worst thing is I don't know the reason. Please can anyone tell me if i need to worry at this stage or what can I do to save my hard drive.
I am into IT industry myself so I regularly fragment, run ccleaner etc to maintain my OS but not sure what is causing this. The only reason I can think of is overheating as I live in quite hot conditions and my hard disk temp is always around 45 degrees C. But my other laptops are running perfectly and has 0 relocation sector count.
Can any other component in my laptop affect my relocation sector count??
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