hdd temp on laptop

[eyec]

i have an HP laptop that my daughter is having problems with. i tried doing a repair install - no joy.

anyway, i am running some utilities from my UltimateBootCD for Windows and the processor temp is @ 45C. Is that running hot and could it be causing the problems with the hdd?

 

[acewarlock]

What are the symptions that it is haveing.




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[eyec]

well it was slow to not moving at all unless you rebooted but, now it is officially dead!

did a disk analysis on it and there were so many damaged blocks that after the report it would not even recognize any existing hdd.

time for a new one. but the question still remains, could or is the temp a possible cause and will it happen again if it is?

 

[wolluf]

Depends what processor is - but 45C is well within tolerance for may processors. I doubt this caused your problem - hard drives do die sooner or later.