Anyabondedwill
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So about three years ago I purchased a Dell XPS M1530. I think now that the hard drive was probaby a litte iffy from the beginning. About three weeks after I got it, it all of a sudden got stuck in a cycle of not being able to start up at all, and startup repair was unable to fix it. I think I remember the diagnostics coming back with something about unreadable stuff on the disk.
Since I didn't have much on it yet, and I tend to be impatient, I did a factory image restore, and for a couple years, it seemed to work, however, I had to be careful with it, because every once in a while it would begin haviing troube starting, but startup repair seemed to be able to fix it.
About a month ago, my computer went into one of those unable to boot the OS failures, and I was forced to do a factory restore again (lets just say that knowing my laptop's history I have not kept anything important unbackedup in its memory.
A few days ago, the same thing happened. A factory image restore at least salvaged its ability to boot the OS, BUT
It cannot complete the SMART long test, sef-test (although during the extended diagnostics the self-test failed), verify test, read test, et cetera because there were too many unreadable sector errors and the long test timed out. Checkdisk even froze over night, stuck at about 59 percent of stage 5 of 5.
Does this mean my hard drive is about to shuffle off this mortal coil? Was it iffy to begin with? Do I need to bang my head for not calling tech support and getting the hard drive replaced whie it was still under warranty?
Since I didn't have much on it yet, and I tend to be impatient, I did a factory image restore, and for a couple years, it seemed to work, however, I had to be careful with it, because every once in a while it would begin haviing troube starting, but startup repair seemed to be able to fix it.
About a month ago, my computer went into one of those unable to boot the OS failures, and I was forced to do a factory restore again (lets just say that knowing my laptop's history I have not kept anything important unbackedup in its memory.
A few days ago, the same thing happened. A factory image restore at least salvaged its ability to boot the OS, BUT
It cannot complete the SMART long test, sef-test (although during the extended diagnostics the self-test failed), verify test, read test, et cetera because there were too many unreadable sector errors and the long test timed out. Checkdisk even froze over night, stuck at about 59 percent of stage 5 of 5.
Does this mean my hard drive is about to shuffle off this mortal coil? Was it iffy to begin with? Do I need to bang my head for not calling tech support and getting the hard drive replaced whie it was still under warranty?
