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Can't tell if my HDD actually "failed".

October 24th, 2014, 1:29

Hey All, First want to start of by saying I'm new to the fourms and this is my first post.

I Recently acquired a Latitude E6410 with no hard drive. So i picked out a what i believe was OK hard drive from a slightly older laptop and installed windows and etc. However later in use i have noticed That the system was a little sluggish. So thinking its the RAM, I increased it from 2 to 4 GBs. Noticed the system was still sluggish expect for a small increase of speed so i decided to install HD Tune Pro 5.50 and see what it says. Immediately i noticed that the drive had "failed" Due to the Airflow Temperature, and one warning for 1 Spin Retry Count. Thinking of this as "Odd" and remembering that a hard drive in my desktop had the same failure but still works just fine, i ran a test with crystaldiskinfo. That Showed the hard drive health as being "Good"
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So did my hard drive actually "Fail" like HD Tune says it did? I'm usually the "Tech guru" and know my stuff, but this has really baffled me and i could really use some Input from Others.

Also, Hope it was fine to include those images, like i said i am new here.

Re: Can't tell if my HDD actually "failed".

October 25th, 2014, 11:28

Do a surface scan to see how it is. Use HDDScan.

Re: Can't tell if my HDD actually "failed".

October 25th, 2014, 15:40

its usual having some slower issues

im almost sure that is the hard drive

see the surface test speed and copy paste on windows :)

Re: Can't tell if my HDD actually "failed".

October 25th, 2014, 21:04

I got HDDScan and did a surface scan. It took longer then i would've imagined and ran HD tune again. This time a new warning came up. Unstable Sectors. Looks like the Hard drive is bad after all. Sucks too. Don't think i have anymore spare laptop hard drive i could use.

Thank you for the replies.
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