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• Equium - hard drive makes clicking noises

  Hello, can someone please help?

  I think my laptop is in trouble, the hard disk (or I think it's the hard drive) is do a lot of clicking noises and my battery life is running down when the adapter is connected. It seems that run down when the drive made those rattling. When the power mode is energy-saving sometimes stops clicking and the battery life fills up again, but recently its been doing even in power saving mode.

  I'm moving all my files on an external hard drive, even though I have a lot of stuff on my lap top. I can't afford a new laptop

  Can someone help me please?

  Thank you

  Hey Buddy,

  How to help you without knowing your model mobile exact?

  Generally if the HARD drive makes clicking noises it s time to replace. Backup to an external drive has been a very good idea.

  And how you can lose the life of the battery if the AC adapter is plugged? I put t understand it.

• hard drive makes grinding noise

  Hello everyone. I have a brand new (3 days) Hp Envy curved 34-A010 A10 PC. I transferred games, etc from my old computer and now the hard drive makes a grinding sound. Anyone know why and what I can do to prevent it? Thank you!!

  Stella, welcome to the forum.

  What a great computer!  I'm jealous.

  I'm sorry to hear about your problem.  I suggest you to contact the vendor for assistance.  They should fix it without any problem.  If you bought through HP Store, you must contact the HP Customer Service.  You should not have problems with a 3 day old computer.  It will only get worse.

  Please click on the Thumbs up button '+' if I helped you and click on "Accept as Solution" If your problem is resolved.

• How to determine which hard drive makes the rattling?

  Sometimes I hear the hard drive makes clicking, get 4 hard drives and would like to know how to determine who makes clicking sounds.

  Does anyone have any suggestions?

  Thanks in advance for your suggestions

  Sunday, September 16, 2012 12:58:32 + 0000, oem7110 wrote:

  Sometimes I hear the hard drive makes the rattling

  Almost certainly an indication that a disc is a failure and should be
  replaced as soon as POSSIBLE.

  I get 4 hard drives and would like to know how to determine who makes clicking sounds.

  Does anyone have any suggestions?

  1. open the case and disconnect the power cables of all readers but
  C:, then run the computer for awhile. If we click, it is C: this is
  dying.

  2. then plug the power cable into a different drive and run it
  computer for a while. If you click on, it's that you reconnected
  who is dying.

  3, number 2 twice more if necessary to repeat.

  Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP

• I am recovering some files on a hard drive in XP with a Vista laptop.

  I am recovering some files on a hard drive in XP with a Vista laptop. The drive appears but I do not see the files. What have I done wrong?

  I got it fixed where I can see the files. Took to a local store and they corrected the files not appearing does not issue free.

• Tecra A2: HARD drive makes noises funny laptop crash

  Today, I turned on my laptop, got into windows, started working when my laptop makes a funny sound, like a noise a little whoosh, n thn froze my pc! I rebooted, but is the same this time on the log of windows on the screen, I kept restarting trying to operate... until he has not start n now it sits right on the toshiba screen before starting.

  The HD LED lights up and I'm stuck in the menu. I opened my laptop n watched the hardrive (tho not touched cos I didn't break!) n its not loose or anything... but now I can not get it started, I tried the recovery cd which I can sometimes get into tho it doesn't seem to work!

  Please can soemone tell me how to solve this problem, preferabley without send it to Toshiba.

  Hi Paul,.

  It seems that if your hard drive has failed. Check in your BIOS during the initial POST to see if the drive is correctly recognized.

  You can try to restore the hard disk from the recovery CD (just boot from the recovery CD and follow the prompts on the screen) but this will erase all your personal data and programs that you can have installed and restore your laptop to its State.

  If you still have problems then I think you need to replace the hard drive and reinstall your system.

  Kind regards

• Qosmio E10 is slow and HARD drive makes noise constantly

  Hi people

  I also have a toshiba qosmio e10 notebook. I had problems with it as well lately.

  First it started with a slow start, and then at some point I started having error messeges.
  When I called the toshiba Helpline advises him to do a check disk. I did this and the problem is still involved.

  Now also the hard drive constantly makes noise, but once the computer was successfully loaded its usually very well, it's just starting. A similar thing experience?
  What is the best thing to do?

  I'm thinking of replacin the hard drive.
  Any help will be appreciated. thanx

  Hello

  The check disk (HARD drive) will not solve all problems, but this tool report some errors and problems with the HARD disk.
  You sounds description as a HARD disk failure.
  Maybe it's a beginning of the end of s.

  Several months ago I noticed something similar on my laptop.
  Two days after my 3 years old HDD was dead. It was just a head crash.

  Take my advice and backup of your data

• Toshiba 320 GB external HARD drive make my very slow computer

  Hello.

  I bought this product a few weeks ago now, and every time I use it, it makes my computer go tp so slow to the point where I can't actually do something on this subject, due to the fact that everything becomes inadmissible. Also, the rate at which I transfer files to it is also very slow. Any ideas why and what I can do to speed things up a bit?

  Thank you.

  Hello

  You suggested that the laptop becomes slowly during the use of the external HARD drive.
  I guess that transfer you a data from the HARD drive internal to the external USB HDD.
  I think that it s not very rare, that the laptop runs slowly during the transmission of the data.
  It depands on the program that runs in the context of the operating system.

  I put t know which interface you use USB2 or USB only, but data transfer depends on the interface.

• Hard Drive runs DST failure in my laptop HP dv6t-7000. How to recover (most important) files?

  Hello

  Last year, I bought a laptop HP Pavilion dv6t-7000 CTO August. Yesterday while I was working on my laptop it has rebooted and showed on the screen of the Bios (setup). After that when I try to boot my laptop it shows (black) white screen for always (no errors reported).

  When I diagnose my laptop, I have Hard Drive short DST failure. I called the HP service center and they said to replace the hard drive.

  But I have a few several important files and documents in my laptop. is it possible to recover my files using a method?

  Please help me in this matter.

  Product description: HP Pavilion dv6t-7000 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC
  Product number: C0L24AAR
  Serial number: [edited by Moderator serial number]

  Kind regards

  Prasad

  Dear customer,

  Welcome and thanks for posting your question on the Forum of Support HP

  Looks like you're not able to boot into the operating system of your laptop

  Please Contact HP if your HP laptop is under warranty, HP could replace the hard drive and give you the

  Recovery media to restore the operating system to factory after the replacement (if you have not yet created recovery disks/USB support)

  According to the message that you have posted, it shows that you get "Abstract DST Failure", then it is time to replace the hard drive with a new

  Back up any personal data on an external drive if possible. Otherwise, you can connect the HDD defective via SATA USB adapter with another PC or a PC even after replacing the HARD drive & put in place of the operating system and try to copy / retrieve files.

  I highly recommend the assistance of HP immediately by phone to get help without delay to get your Notebook diagnosed and repaired by an authorized HP Certified Engineer

  You can check your warranty here to check the status and click here to order a new hard drive

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• Editing photos on an external hard drive using two different computers - a laptop computer and a desktop computer

  Hi, I have all my photos on an external drive. I want to change my photos on my desktop at home and then to be able to work on my laptop when on mobile. My catalog is stored on my external hard drive. But the changes that I did for the photos on my laptop do not seem to have been recorded on my external hard drive when I watched tonight on lightroom on my desk.

  The file that I watched tonight is a native import of original photography don't not presenting the any fixtures that I made earlier today.

  Any suggestions on where I'm wrong.

  Hi juliew,

  The adjustments you make in Lightroom are stored in the catalog itself. It makes no changes directly with the original files.

  For example, you won't find any changes on the original images.

  If you are not able to see editing in Lightroom itself, please make sure that you opened the same catalog from the external hard drive on both computers.

  I hope this helps.

  ~ UL

• Hard drive makes a weird cracking / Satellite A500

  Hello

  I have a fairly new Toshiba Satellite A500 (2 months) and for about 2 weeks, it is difficult to start making a cracking noise (a kind of click hear you when the player load something)... He had never done before. Many drive hard making the sound of crackling, I know, but what I find strange is that sometimes both...

  I did a lot of testing with different software, defragmentation, clean, SMART analysis, space remaining... and everything is OK. I'm really not see the problem.
  May be an indication, noise appeared shortly after I installed GTA 4.

  I would like to know if you also had this problem, or if you know how to solve. The hard drive still works fine, there is only this new sound that starts to irritate me...

  Thank you

  PS: I'm French, I hope that I didn't too many mistakes...
  my hard drive is a Toshiba 500 GB mk5055gsx.

  Hi Renan

  In front of me, I have Satellite A500-157. I don't know which is HARD drive inside (manufacturer), but HARD DRIVE works alone and without some strange noises.
  On this path, it is not easy to say with certainty if the HARD disk is defective, but you can at any time you want the closest contact Toshiba service provider and ask for help. They can check the HARD disk and discuss with you what may be the problem.

  From my experience, I know when HDD makes some clicking noisy it can be the end of the HARD drive.
  Maybe you should back up all your data. ;)
  Just to be sure... you know what I mean.

• hard drive failure and replacement of the laptop pavilion dv6-1000

  It seems that the hard drive has failed in the laptop.  When I run a test gives me a message 3f0 and hard drive does not exist.  Tried to start the repair system and the operating system not found.  Would fix with the image of the system.  No found boot device.  Conclusion: new hard drive required.  The laptop drive is a seagate momentus 320 GB 5400,6.    Do I have to replace it with a new seagate or can I use a Western Digital with the same 320 GB, 5400 rpm?  Thank you in advance.

  Hello:

  WD should be fine and if you want to use a disc 7 200 RPM faster seek time (at a small cost of battery life between charges) you can go with this too.

  Paul

• What is the largest hard drive that will work in dv6324us laptop computer?

  What is the largest hard drive that will work in a HP Pavilion dv6324us laptop?

  Hello:

  Here is the link to the service manual for your laptop.

  http://h10032.www1.HP.com/CTG/manual/c01035677.PDF

  Support for HARD drives and capacities are listed in Chapter 3, page 3-25.

  Personally, I think you could install a SATA II 320 GB to your laptop.  Maybe even a 500 GB.

  You could also probably install a drive of 7 200 rpm for better performance or if the battery life between charges is more important for you, then stick with a disk of 5 400 rpm.

  Paul

• How can I remove the recovery partition from a corrupt HARD drive that I replaced in a laptop?

  I replaced a HDD corrupted in the laptop of a friend and you want to reuse. How can I delete the recovery partition? When I try to use my Windows 7 computer management tool, it will not access? I did a complete player wipe (twice) what the partition is still there and I can't remove it. It's 14 GB of space I want to retrieve and use the HARD drive in another system at a later date.

  Thank you

  Try the command line option:

  Start cmd.exe as an administrator, then inside the window cmd, type

  DiskPart

  then, type diskpart

  list disk

  take note of the correct disc ID to clear

  type

  Select disk x

  (where x is the ID of your disk to erase)

  type

  clean

  your HARD drive will be erased completely

  or you can try the magic of partition:

  http://www.partitionwizard.com/

  or if it does not work:

  http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

  Hiren's boot cd and gparted tool available.

  You must create a bootable CD or USB pen as media.

• While trying to install XP Pro on T60 he does not see the hard drive, but the fact of the laptop.

  Have a lenovo t60 disk opportunity was wiped out when trying to install XP Pro, I get message windows does not see the hard drive, but he sees the laptop.

  If its SATA you need SATA drivers to install. Since the XP CD doesn't have the SATA drivers on it

  Unless you disable the AHCI in the BIOS. Or their wake.

  Or get the SATA drivers. Check out them on diskette, press F6 during installation and then add them.