HDD Verging on Failure 3 Months in Time

[Ammonite]

Almost done the backup.

On further inspection, the letter indicates that if I don't send it back they will attempt to contact me, and if they can't after a week you get invoiced for the part. I won't be risking that.

Oh well.

 

[Norton]

Almost done the backup.

On further inspection, the letter indicates that if I don't send it back they will attempt to contact me, and if they can't after a week you get invoiced for the part. I won't be risking that.

Oh well.

Maybe it's different down there Would still wipe the old drive and/or call customer service regarding security of the data on your old drive and what they recommend. CCleaner (free download) can do a multipass wipe of the old drive.... will take many hours to do.

 

[Ammonite]

Mmhm, apparently HP is more strict with the deal. I guess it makes sense otherwise you could get people claiming free hardware from warranty.

Definitely will be erasing the data. Does CCleaner also erase free space to ensure no dirty recovery of deleted files?

Have horrible visions of some pervert looking through photos, passwords, invoices and documents. 0_0

 

[Ammonite]

Argghhh nooo.

I opened the hard drive compartment, started unscrewing and the first screw comes out, rolls and disappears into the computer. I can hear it rattling around. Now I'm going to have to take the whole thing apart but I've never done this before with a laptop.

Such a simple task and it always HAS to go fucking wrong. ;_;

 

[Ammonite]

EaseUS Disk Copy worked a charm. It took just under 7 hours using the USB SATA cable but the results were perfect; all my partitions converted over, all my data perfectly moved. Its strange how everything was perfectly cloned byte for byte... feels like I'm still on my old drive.

Gonna give it an hour to make sure I don't find anything missing, then I'm going to do thorough erasing with Apple's Disk Utility.

Solved. c:

 

[Norton]

EaseUS Disk Copy worked a charm. It took just under 7 hours using the USB SATA cable but the results were perfect; all my partitions converted over, all my data perfectly moved. Its strange how everything was perfectly cloned byte for byte... feels like I'm still on my old drive.

Gonna give it an hour to make sure I don't find anything missing, then I'm going to do thorough erasing with Apple's Disk Utility.

Solved. c:

Great to hear

Quick tip- be careful on the double/triple posting- all you need to do is Edit your last post if no one has responded since you're last post.

How's you're other project going?

Off to work for now.....

 

[Ammonite]

Double posting guilty, but I'm used to other forums were you can repost after 24 hours. Guess that doesn't apply here, maybe I should read the rules.

 

[Norton]

Double posting guilty, but I'm used to other forums were you can repost after 24 hours. Guess that doesn't apply here, maybe I should read the rules.

Not sure on all of the rules but I've seen cautions given to other regarding double posts so I try to avoid- I know you can bump your for sale thread once per day so you may be right on reposting to another thread...

Any noticeable difference in speed or spin up noise in going from a 5,400 to a 7,200 RPM drive?

 

[Ammonite]

It is slightly louder than the other one, I can occasionally hear it if the fan is going low. As for speed, the startup time was a little faster at first, but I'm not sure the difference is hugely noticeable.

If I was to buy the same hard drive and could get a 5400rpm cheaper, I probably would just go with that. It may be a little faster and I'm just not noticing, but practically the difference is hard to tell.

I imagine the only way to really notice a hard drives speed increase is if the transfer rate was larger.

 

[Widjaja]

You honestly probably won't notice much difference, if any.

I personally found the loading times, are most significant depending on other components.
e.g. Motherboard, RAM and processor.

For example, going from a Opteron 180 X2 2.4Ghz nf4 chipset 2GB Low Latency RAM to Core 2 Q6600 2.4Ghz nf 680i 4GB RAM with the same drive made a huge difference in loading times.
Took jalf as long with load times in games.