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PC: Bad hard drive ........ ?
Ok so my hard drive started making buzzing sounds about 1 week ago. Recently, about 2 days ago every time I put my PC to sleep and wake it up, the hard drive starts making knocking sounds, freezes and I get a blue screen. Then the PC restarts, it also takes longer to start up and the hard drive continues to make the knocking sounds until the windows is loaded.
Im not sure if its the hard drive or something else, I ran the HP diagnostic hardware test on the drive and everything seems fine.
I posted a picture of the exact error stop code.
Im thinking it could be something with the system files, so I might do a factory restore and see if that helps, any feedback is much appreciated
Btw, I have HPE-310t
700GB Drive @7200
Yea im 100% sure, I ran it with the cover opened, all fans are booting up and theres nothing stuck in them..
4 Answers
- Richard JamesLv 68 years agoFavorite Answer
Maybe try running CheckDrive. I usually run it every week or two.
http://www.abelssoft.net/checkdrive.php
If you want to know what caused the blue screen: http://www.resplendence.com/whocrashed
Read documentation first - links near the bottom of the page.
Other than that you can patch and update all drivers and software along with fixing any system errors.
System errors build up quite rapidly!
Keep an eye on them: http://runscanner.net/
- 8 years ago
An Operating System error freeze's Your Computer, Which makes the hard drive Stop, The Click is that when it suddenly stops reading it self. Consider Re-installing Your Operating System. If that does not help, Yeah Your hard drive is dying.
Source(s): Technician - 8 years ago
Are you sure it's your hard drive? open up your PC and find out where the sounds coming from. You might have something stuck int your fan.
- gubermanLv 45 years ago
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