isitafox Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 Quick one for the computer boys. My Acer laptop finally died a few weeks back after a good 6 or so years service and my mum gave me a Toshiba Satellite Pro (her spare laptop) to use in replacement, the problem I've found through speaking to my brother is the thing eats up hard drives. Whilst he had it it had 2 new hard drives in and both those and the original developed errors. I thought I'd managed to fix it after spending a long night at work doing various disc error checks and fixes and finally getting a fresh install of W7 on there, also was able to install iTunes and copy over about 18gb of music but the next time I turned it on it had died again and I realised the HDD was goosed. My question is, is this a dead cause or does it sound repairable? It's not a particularly old laptop, was probably just out of warranty the first time it messed up so seems a waste to just bin it especially as physically it's as new! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HippY Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 if you have a multimeter check the cables, maybe it got too much power if all the readings are fine, then try to bring it to a laptop repair guy and show him, it sound like a serious hidden fault Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anzo Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 Far too many possibilities. Installation disc, heat, motherboard or just plain bad luck. Any info on exactly what the error was? Does it 'kill' the drive or just screw up the installation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted June 8, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 Kills the drives so when you load up you just get the blue error screen. Not sure on the actual error without loading it up. Think I'll just pass it off as a lost cause and consign to the skip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 Blue screen of death? That's not necessarily related to the HDD at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HippY Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 When you get a blue screen then you will see a error code. If you cant because it restarting, turn off restart on crash in boot menu As muel says, I would check the RAMs too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted June 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 Not saying its the hdd causing the fault, something in the laptop is causing the hdd to fail hence the reason it's had 3 hard drives in under 2 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted June 9, 2013 Report Share Posted June 9, 2013 If that's the case, it'll be the PSU killing it most likely, but it's very unlikely. I suspect more that someone in the shop your brother used to get it fixed told porkies to rip him off. I only say that because I've heard loads of shops doing the same scam. They charge the RRP for a drive they paid trade for, wack it in in about 5 minutes, charge an hour or more for labour and reinstall windows. Often the only thing that went wrong is that windows shagged itself.If it really is killing drives, then it's at least 2 years old and not worth replacing the PSU or the motherboard (unlikely to be a motherboard killing an HDD if you ask me but it's possible).Personally I'd just spend £300 on a new one in the sales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isitafox Posted June 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 Nah he fitted the hard drives hinself as he is a fellow geek with an obscenely massive pc akin to yourself. Will consign it to the dustbin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muel Posted June 10, 2013 Report Share Posted June 10, 2013 Ahhhh, yeh bin it mate. When you add up the time and hassle spent fannying around with it, plus the money cost of sorting it, it'd be way cheaper to just buy a new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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