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    Hyperion Cross
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    1st time... any tools to check if laptop hard drive is failing?

    A family member's laptop hard drive (4 months) seems to be making a squeaking noise periodically, not often but not always. I've borrowed it off him for 3 nights now and it just seems to do it a few times an evening, it can rotate between a sudden click noise or a squeak. Squeaking being more common.

    Performance seems usual and there seems to be no problems with it so far but I've already begun backing up stuff. Is there a tool to check if it's failing?

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    download Hiren's all in one, burn the ISO to cd and boot off of it, and run PC doctor's HDD test.

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    MHDD
    Download MHDD 4.6 - MHDD is the most popular freeware application for low-level HDD diagnostics - Softpedia

    burn to a disc/thumbdrive.
    boot to that
    make sure your hard drive if given the option is set on IDE Native or IDE (just for testing)
    find the drive and select it by pressing the number.
    Press f4 to begin the scan, let it run to full...
    then you can tell by the amount of defective sectors.
    Also remember to change it back to AHCI if u had to change it from that to IDE.

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    Hyperion Cross
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    Thanks for those links, I'll go check it out this weekend!

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