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• Noisy hard drive Equium A200-1V0

  I recently bought an Equium A200-1V0 with Vista installed.
  I got it two weeks, I have barely any software, but HDD is impregnated with a really annoying crackling sound.

  It is not only during startup, even for the simplest of programs, such as word, brands of hard drive of my laptop this incessant crackling noise.
  I thought that the laptops are supposed to be quiet.

  Is - this usual?

  > I thought laptops are supposed to be quiet.
  ;) not. You can't say that all laptops must be altogether. As you know there are a lot of series of laptops that is designed for the different areas of work.
  For example: professional laptops are quite little, and don t support the high performance devices like for example graphics card to play games, but a X 200 was desigened to the game and it is much noisier because of high performance devices.

  However, to the noisy HARD drive
  I have 2 different laptops. Drives my M40 of Sam makes strange noises, but it works very well, so in my case I would exclude a hardware problem

  But who knows, maybe you HDD starts I have malfunction would recommend shows the additional HARD drive activities and to safeguard important data.

  Best regards

• TOSHIBA MD04ACA400 quite noisy HARD drive work

  Hola,

  A few days ago, I noticed that when the PC is idle, after about 10 minutes the hard drive start work quite noisy , moving the mouse makes the sound stops.

  I have:
  -10 Windows
  -TOSHIBA MD04ACA400
  (HDD, Guardian)

  Thank you.
  

  There is a waiting period until the PC will start a thing of maintenance, which is very likely to be what it is, considering that it stops it again when you resume activity.

• Noisy hard drive, dying machine?

  I have an Acer Aspire one running Xp fully updated OS, I was and IExplore user version 8.0.6001.18702 with a chrome plug. Adding Chrome and Foxfire as backup browsers...

  Did dfrag and clean

  Virus/firewall used is Zone Alarm free version. Real-time running Active scanner.

  Used DirectX diagnosis only tool through all the steps, test all the options... no problem.

  Used the latest version of Microsoft Safety Scanner. No Malware or viruses found.

  The machine is connected wireless to a Brother printer and internet gateway. Often connected via USB for scanner canon, canoscan (LIDE), an external hard drive WD, where most of the data is stored, rollerball, key board ms Gigaware, several flashdrives, speakers connected to the intake earphonr.

  Hard drive was silent all by writing this, it tends to be noisy, the more I do, sometimes... it happened about a month since the last event to long-term noise issues.

  I used the heavy machine... Games Facebook, some in iE8, some at Foxfire, some in Chrome... I find more ready feature in iE8 then others... I keep the plugin for a minimon overall, and are quickly when the drive is quiet, the sound slows down all operations. During the noise I shot on YouTube and other videos online... player favorite is Windows Media Player, Realplayer and Quicktime as back ups. I have a "Deskmate" character that works most of the time, the program is no longer supported, but it runs well, I have stopped during the events of noise.

  Noise came as soon as I opened a folder to a rtf of the... saved report and closed... noise stops...

  I think the hard drive of the machine will die... in how long?

  As he does, I would like to replace the hard drive and reinstall the OS do not know how this machine would work with the current version of Windows, there are general specifications on the Acer Aspire One, a person who knows '8' well, perhaps a person MS can comment on the wheather * can handle the specifications of my One AA... I will continue to use the machine as long as I can... I don't want to get a new machine of graphics with all the bells a whisles, but like to keep a usable machine work.

  Anything else I can check on this machine... with adding them scareware?

  As its name suggests, a 'clone disk' is an exact copy of the original disc.  Everything is copied, including including all files in Windows operating system.  A clone operation usually copierait also all partitions on the disk, including any hidden partition, placed there by the computer manufacturer to restore the computer to its "fresh from the factory" State.  Because the cloned drive is an exact copy of the original disc, you need not to re - validate or reinstall Windows.

  Most of the cloning of the applications also drive allow the creation of "disk images".  The difference between a clone and a picture, is that the image is compressed, which allows you to save one or more images on a backup unit.  If a disk hard fails, you can restore an image to a new disk, but you must use the software that created the image to do so; on the other hand, if you have a clone of the original, you simply replace the bad disk with a new one.

  In most, but not all, the instructions I've seen point out that with laptop computers that you install the new disk first (with the original drive in an external enclosure) and then make the clone--> http://kb.acronis.com/content/2931 (compare, for example, http://youtu.be/fD08UaWon6A).  Read the instructions that come with any software package that you choose.

  What brand of car to use, insofar as I do not enough material work to give you an informed recommendation current.  I always used to Western Digital drives and was very pleased with them.  Others swear by Seagate.  If I had to find which drive to buy today, I would like to start looking at Newegg user comments but there is a lot of material to review sites on the web - most end up confusing the issue, especially since most of the reviewers is now focused on the latest, fastest solid state and more expensive readers.

• NB510 - noisy hard drive

  Hello

  I treated myself just to a whole new nb510-11j and having owned and loved my old nb250 I thought this might be a better replacement as my boyfrind told me the nb250 would not last forever and I had to upgrade.

  I received a new yesterday and registered the warranty with toshiba and I wanted to just ask you a few questions. The new we do a little "rattle" noise from the minute I turn on until it is turned off. I guess that's the drive hard, but is - it normal? About my Mo250 ran in silence and you have heard only the disk hard kick in every now and then. Also he felt 'hot' after a few hours, not boiling like an old laptop but just hot and my OLD computer never gets hot so I'm a little concerned about this too. I just need to know if this is normal or should I send it back while I still can?

  The other question was if I get it upgraded to 2 Ram (which I did on the 250) is the toshiba warranty still valid?

  Thank you very much
  Jen x

  To be honest my NB520 is pretty quiet and I don't hear anything. I'm very happy with my machine. It is quiet, run perfectly and the battery life is excellent. My friends has NB550D and it is also extremely quiet.

  As Akuma wrote by clicking noise on some hard disks is pretty normal but very annoying.
  I don t want to do some panic here, but I think you should exchange it and compare it with the HARD drive on another machine.

  Upgrade of RAM do not negate guaranteed and this option is for laptop owners. My NB520 has 4 GB inside.

  Please post comments.

• Re: Click on Satellite A300 - noisy HARD drive - strange of sound while booting

  Hi all

  I'm new and I would try to solve some problems with my new laptop * SATELLITE A300-1MZ * (with Vista) and * its hard disk * (a MHZ250BH of Fj-simens).

  I noticed that he is very mechanical in the normal conditions of use, in fact, when I turn on my computer, I hear a clear rattling and his mechanic from the HDD at different times also when there should be no disk activity.
  * Particularlly every 3-5 seconds * I hear a very strange noise as a small but very distinguible mechanic "CLAC" (is not refer to number of cycle ordefrag or indexing workload). Ditto on my ubuntu LINUX distro.
  However the phone never crashes

  _It first start Appareed and it's very noise_.
  I would ask if this is normal... It appeared regardless of the AC or battery power source.

  I just make a SMART software which is no problem, but I'm very worried about this problem.
  By phone, I just say all this to the center of Toshiba in my country, but for them all right. The laptop works ok.

  Not to mention that I found that * HDD * becomes * hot * also if there are no programs or processes that use it.
  He begins to 29a ° - 31Â ° and it gets hot with normal use (35 ° - 36Â ° after finished booting and after 30-40 min temperature is become more warm-42a ° - 46Â °, when its average temperature is ° - 48Â ° 46a - imagine if I turn for example a virus scan or a very hot video coding software-It to become: 50a ° - 55Â °.) (I try always not to overcome this final temperature). What is the maximum?

  * I hope you can give me an explanation to the problem.*
  * I ask if this is a problem common to other A300 owners.*

  For my personal reflection, that noise, it is very distinguible for a cooler quiet fan system (infact my dual core is 43a ° with normal use)
  Infact I would like to find a system to enable more cool fan (I have just seen in the bios and utilities from Toshiba but found nothing to that effect)

  Finally, I would like to know if the * battery time * 1h30mins (with the symmetric mode) is acceptable for a new laptop (with save mode is 1h40mins max).
  * I hope your support and I apologize for my language school *.

  Thanks y'alls.

  Hello

  I think that it s nothing wrong with your HARD drive.
  I have two cell phones and a PS3 at home.
  The HARD drive in a laptop made similar clicking sound. In addition, I noticed the same sound in the PS3. Since the upgrade to 500GB drive HARD makes the similar sound as the HARD drive in my notebook.
  I think that it s nothing wrong with the HARD drive and eventually it s nothing serious.

  > Finally, I would like to know if the battery of 1h30mins (with the symmetric mode) is acceptable for a new laptop (with save mode is 1h40mins max).
  Battery working time depends on the use of the laptop.
  The battery lasts a shorter time when to implement applications performance on the laptop. Also if the brightness of the display is set to the highest level, the battery needed to dump a lot more quickly.
  So I think 1.30 min is OK for the laptop. Of course, you can buy a stronger battery in order to use the laptop longer with battery power.

• noisy hard drive

  I took a hard drive of a dell Desktop Tower scrapped and used for an external hard drive, and I noticed when I started the hard drive it makes a shrill noise noticeable for about 3 seconds, I mean it got my attention, passing more fort that now when it starts... now, I hear a very, scraping little very slight noise when I start it about 1-2 seconds and then it's real calm.

  I went to a few sites and they had 20 seconds little records of bad hard drives so I know this as the 'click,' click, click sound of the arm to hit stop in the hard drive looks like... but this does not at all... in fact it sounds better records of the site was for h.d.s. 'healthy '. , so I was wondering if the hard drive that I took from the dell Desktop Tower was perhaps sitting for an extended period and the arm has been a little "tight" to sit on and now it is loose upwards, perhaps?... .the car has been wiped clean,... When I looked in disc project. two partitions have been 100% free... I was wondering too why this other thing happened,... I had hung it up for an hour and I got it and when I hooked it back were two of the new (used) hard drives showing... in the global disk page, there was my internal hard drive display and then TWO of the ext hard drives showing... .so I removed and put back in and it works fine now... so I was also wondering if maybe the fact that she wiped and the arm were no instructions and the fact that if it was sitting for a long time, perhaps the software has been confused or something? and who did the flip arms and both copies appear...? .. .the hard disk was free, this isn't the player, I'm worried and the speaker was 10 dollars... I'm just a bit of a nut about learning about things, is no longer wondering and learn about computers and hard drives... any assistance would be greatly appreciated...

  Visit decision-makers HD support site and download/create their utility disk for verification.

  No sitting for a period made no difference, a noise 'type stripes' represents a failure by car - it is not just a click, click

• Very sick hard drive in, how to re - install CS6 on a new hard drive?

  Hello everyone, (and sorry for my bad English: I'm a woman in french)

  In fact, I have two problems:

  I bought a CS6 on December 2013 20; On me I was allowed to activate CS6 on two computers. I only put in a computer, but the hard drive of this computer is very sick today. I raised probabily will have to put a new hard drive in there. How can I transfer my first release of the first hard drive to the second?

  The second thing I wanted to ask you is this:

  We now have one of our girls who studies of design, and we want to give our second opportunity to activation, but the school wants CS6 is on a Mac. We have not bought the MAC yet, because we want to know: is it possible to exchange our able to activate PC against a possibility of activating MAC?

  Someone that could help us to all these things, is there somewhere? Is there somewhere a phone number where we can be knowledgeable?

  Even thank you in advance!

  Yes. You can disable the license from one computer and then activate on another.

• Qosmio G30-126 (PQG32E) - very slow performance of HARD drive

  I have improved my Qosmio G30 126 at 4 GB of Ram, SSD 64 HDD as windows7 boot partition and 500 GB 7200 64cache HARD drive as drive HARD secondary but I have a very slow HARD drive performance when working in windows7, but when I work on a virtual machine Windows XP, the disk HARD perforemance is fine.

  I've upgraded all drivers from toshiba.com for windows7 ultimate 32-bit drivers including drivers from the chipset intel but my problem is not solved. I also check all other performance issues and its OK.

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  I used HD tune software to check my HARD drive it accelerates gives about 100bps in windows 7 for my SSD and it gives 285mbps (this is the actual read speed) in the machine virtual Windows XP and the actual speed is significantly different.

  Please tell me what to do because I suffer from my laptop very slow and spend a lot of mony on it without more.

  Hello

  To be honest it is really hard to tell why you have slow HARD drive performance but especially it s associated with a large number of programs they are running in the background. How many processes are started after Windows starts?

  Also, the antivirus program may affect the performance of the computer. I would recommend using the AntiVir freeware tool and the Windows Firewall. That's enough if keep you Windows up-to-date and use a new Internet browser.

  Also check the other discussions of the forum on the slow performance. You can find a lot of useful tips to improve performance. For example:
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• I need to reformat my external hard drive to use with Bootcamp?

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• is it possible to change the hard drive from my toshiba satellite broke for my dell inspiron 1521

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• New hard drive... new OS!

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  Im going to buy a new 1 and I'm upgrading to vista when I get the new 1.

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  What I have to do a few new vista drivers or it "all work"?

  My computer may have been shipped with Vista, but when Vista is an OS very 'lag '.

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• Compaq presario 6010us dead hard drive

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  Here are the specs of your PC.  You have an eight year old PC, so don't buy a very large hard drive or your computer will probably not recognize.  You may have a repair shop authorized HP tattoo the new HDD as some older PCs used this method for a way to control the software.

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  Option 1: you can drag and drop files in the Lightroom library module. Have been reported by users who have done what all the pictures move, and then they have to spend a lot of time to find the missing images.

  Option 2: you can move folders of images to the new hard drive with your operating system. When you view the folder that you moved Lightroom will tell you he hasn't. So we must show Lightroom were the file is now located.

  Lightroom think my photos are missing - how to fix? Lightroom Queen

  If you have a lot of images and folders to move, it is my opinion that option 2 is the best option. The operating system seems to do a better job to move the files. But we must take the time to point Lightroom to the folders on the new hard drive. It's not that much time, but it needs to be done.

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• Changed computers. Old HARD drive is now slave. FF is not find old settings and saved passwords. Very Important saved passwords.

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  The "Application Data" in XP/Win2K folder and the folder "AppData" in Vista/Windows 7 are hidden folders.

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