A couple of days ago my 5 year old acer laptop crashed..i was browsing and user the internet while downloading and suddenly it went to a slow crawl and it froze, gave me the blue screen physical memory dump and my laptop restarted..but then i heard a beeping noise and the laptop would restart over and over again at the F2 Acer screen logo...the only way i could turn it off was taking the battery out.
I knew after looking it up that the leg of the hard drive had stuck on the platter..so my friend followed a tutorial on how to get the leg off through youtube and he opened it up and successfully got it off carefully and put the leg back in place.
I thought the hard drive was fixed as we tested it and we were able to view the contents and the noise was gone..
but now the hard drive is extremely slow..whether i used it as an external hard drive or put the hard drive back in the laptop, it was just slow and it took nearly 20 minutes just to get into the desktop screen but it would take too long so i went in by safe mode. i still see all of my files but everything is slow and transferring everything takes a long time as well..i can't even do multiple file transfers or else it will crash and restart the computer.
i did a health check using crystaldisk on the drive which was a Western Digital 640gb blue scorpio..it gave me a Caution warning and there was a caution warning on t he current pending sector count.
i tried running a chkdisk error check but it would always crash part way and never finish...
could this drive still be dying??
I knew after looking it up that the leg of the hard drive had stuck on the platter..so my friend followed a tutorial on how to get the leg off through youtube and he opened it up and successfully got it off carefully and put the leg back in place.
I thought the hard drive was fixed as we tested it and we were able to view the contents and the noise was gone..
but now the hard drive is extremely slow..whether i used it as an external hard drive or put the hard drive back in the laptop, it was just slow and it took nearly 20 minutes just to get into the desktop screen but it would take too long so i went in by safe mode. i still see all of my files but everything is slow and transferring everything takes a long time as well..i can't even do multiple file transfers or else it will crash and restart the computer.
i did a health check using crystaldisk on the drive which was a Western Digital 640gb blue scorpio..it gave me a Caution warning and there was a caution warning on t he current pending sector count.
i tried running a chkdisk error check but it would always crash part way and never finish...
could this drive still be dying??
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