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Hard Disc not Installed
I have a problem with the hard disc on my laptop. The laptop dies randomly during my work. I have been asking for along time to detect what is the problem and yet no result. My laptop is inspiron 15 3000 series with a 1 TB hard disc drive. I have been using it for approximately 2 year for some programming and other normal work. I have 220 GB of media videos that I transferred from external hard disc. In this particular I went to a local fixing centre and the guy who worked there told me that my hard disc efficiency is very low( approximately 9%) and that was because of some virouses in it. So I have these questions: 1- Can a 1 TB HDD hard disc be damaged from virouses so its efficiency is that low(9%)? 2- Can I just format it and then it works properly? or I just have to replace it with another one? (taking point that I once (or twice may be) opened the laptop from inside and made sure there is no problem with the cable or the hard disc it self)
JOcean
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February 18th, 2019 10:00
OK, first of all could you please post the exact model number of your system? The 3000 is indeed a series not a model number. A virus can do some pretty nasty things to a computer and the hard drive. Before you format it, which would eliminate all files including a virus, run system diagnostics to make sure the drive is not failing. After 2 years of steady work, it is possible.
Restart the system and at the Dell splash screen start tapping F12. Run full diagnostics paying attention to the hard drive results. If the drive does have problems, consider an SSD which will give you far better performance and should outlast an HDD.
Once you either format of replace the hard drive consider installing a good anti virus program. If you got the virus once, and not knowing where you got it from, it could happen again. An ounce or prevention works with computers as well.
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February 25th, 2019 12:00
JOcean
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March 1st, 2019 11:00
That is indeed correct. Consider an SSD, the performance is much better and the prices are coming down on even the largest SSDs.
Zakispeare
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March 1st, 2019 11:00
Zakispeare
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March 3rd, 2019 05:00
Thank you @JOcean
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March 3rd, 2019 06:00
Glad to help out!