Thursday, May 20, 2010

Dell Laptop Hard Drive Diagnostics

Most of Dell laptops and desktops with a practical use already built in them to perform at least get some basic form of diagnosis, if you need troubleshooting foreplay. This article shows how to test the computer's hard disk is installed in your desktop or laptop Dell.

Some symptoms to what extent you should suspect that some of your hard drive is either bad or went wrong : Includes

Nowhere - a laptop or desktop computer hangs and does nothing when you turn it on. You can sit with the lights on, but do nothing. It may come for a few seconds then goes off again.

- Instead of seeing the boot screen of Windows on the laptops fault complete, you receive an error message POST said that there is no boot device, or perhaps there is a volume mounted on the drive.

Sluggish performance - Often, when a> Hard drive fails you will be able to present some form of a heads-up on this sad fact, witnessed a considerable decline of your system performance when you are actually in the laptop operating system (OS).

Attention Windows - Windows is unable to feel it through a message to appear on the screen informing you that you save, then back up all important data immediately, because a disk erroris imminent. Now is not necessarily a good idea to wait until this message appears because often times a hard drive is completely bad, useless, without this warning will be displayed on the screen at all.

On your Dell laptop or a desktop computer, you will probably find a handy utility that you run a quick test on your hard disk. This test is very reliable, at least to determine if the hard diskreally bad.

The way in which you can access this test is as follows:
Turn off the computer from Dell, you see the Dell splash screen, then only very briefly give a message, look at the F2 and F12 at the top right of your desktop or notebook. The trick is to press the F12 key on your keyboard, right when you see the message F2 and F12 are shown in the top right of the screen.

This is a BIOS boot menu and you simply select thea, diagnosis refers to the disk. Various models of Dell desktop or laptop offers several options based on SATA or IDE hard drive. Once you begin the test drive is selected. After about two minutes five minutes ago or so, depending on the size of your hard drive, you see the test results. The results will be a pass or fail-code error. The hard thing with the Dell recallDiagnostic Drive, which return an error code 7 indicates that the hard drive must be replaced effectively. Back up all important data that you may have and / or desktop computer to replace the laptop hard drive.

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