Storage Laptop HDD Failing?

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  1. bumfluff

    bumfluff What's a Dremel?

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    I was quite happily browsing the interwebs on my laptop yesterday when I realised that something was making a noise which hadn't been there before. So I picked it up to see where it was coming from. On putting it back down I got a BSOD and my laptop restarted and it would not boot properly. After doing some digging I found that my BSOD was "unmountable_boot_volume", but I managed to fix it by going into the recovery console and doing a couple of things and when I was back into Windows I backed up some of my more crucial files (luckily there aren't many as most things are on my desktop).

    I decided to run HD Tune to see what it could tell me about my HDD and this is what it gave me:

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    I can't say I know what these mean but it doesn't look great. Is my laptop HDD's time coming? It's a fairly old Dell Latitude D600 so I doubt the expense of new hard drive and OS would be worth it. I just want to know if I should start saying goodbye.
     
  2. thehippoz

    thehippoz What's a Dremel?

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    yep the hd is on it's way from he looks of it.. least you can rescue what's on it
     
  3. bumfluff

    bumfluff What's a Dremel?

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    I just did a read test and got an average of 1.4mb/s :sigh:
     
  4. knuck

    knuck Hate your face

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    1.4MB/s ? backup asap
     

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