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Confused whether drive is bad or good
nothing till now. it happens once or twice in a day. i had left the laptop open till today. so whenever this happens, i just partly open the laptop, give the hard drive connector a small push and then its good till i move/carry the laptop again to another place. i am pretty sure its the hard...- mkaladar
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Confused whether drive is bad or good
yes, finally caught the culprit. it is the cable connector to the hard drive. i removed and installed the hard drive a few times and this caused some loose contact / bad contact. now i wonder where to look for this laptop parts. i think its going to be really tough. whenever the system...- mkaladar
- Post #7
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Confused whether drive is bad or good
good idea i will try this ASAP and post a reply to you. thanks- mkaladar
- Post #4
- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Confused whether drive is bad or good
i recently bought a used laptop which worked fine for a week and then troubles. first windows showed disk write error and when i try to restart, it wouldnt . says operating system not found, then sometimes said ntkernel.exe was corrupt and then suddenly it would boot fine and work for like 3/4...- mkaladar
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