I just bought a Dell Inspiron laptop 17i17RM-2419sLV almost a month ago. Today the computer has started making a soft clicking noise that goes in sync with the flashing hard drive light. Is my hard drive bad already? Suggestions? I'm in grad school and can't afford for this to suddenly crash on me again. I actually bought the same make/model right before this and the hard drive crashed three weeks after I bought it. It was replaced for me and now here I with a almost constantly blinking light and accompanying clicking sound. I don't know a whole lot about computers but will post hopefully some helpful info. Thank you for any suggestions!
3rd Generation Intel Core i5-3337U Processor (3M Cache, up to 2.7 GHz)
It doesn't sound good and I really suspect that hard drive is going bad as well. With that said, I would take this opportunity to back up all important data to a USB drive while you still can and then contact Dell support for service under warranty.
It doesn't sound good and I really suspect that hard drive is going bad as well. With that said, I would take this opportunity to back up all important data to a USB drive while you still can and then contact Dell support for service under warranty.
Click of death, hard drive will likely fail. It sounds like the hard drive supplier had a bad batch of drives. Very unfortunate but it happens. Rough treatment can cause this too. Back up your data to an external drive while you can.
I turned on my computer this morning and I logged in and then just a dark screen with my arrow. It won't do anything I turned it off, unplugged it, turned it back onand just a dark screen with my arrow. I have a paper due Tuesday
If the hard drive has failed there isn't much you can do but replace it. If you know who made the hard drive you can go to their web site and download a utility to check the drive for errors. If you slave that drive in another PC you might get lucky and be able to recover some of your data.
The computer is less than a month old. Would it be better to replace the hard drive or get a different make and model altogether? The place I purchased my computer at is willing to refund me.
Depends on who is going to replace the hard drive and reinstall Windows? If the shop does it you likely won't get your factory install with a recovery option. If Dell does it it will be just like it was when you first turned it on. Either way I hope you have your data backed up. If it was me I'd likely get a refund and switch brands.
Dell would do it but I don't have a week to wait on them. I attached my papers that I'm working on now into an email to myself last night just in case. What make model would you recommend? Thank you for your help!
I am quit happy with the ASUS listed in my System Specs. My Wife and my daughter have Acers. My father and sisters have HP's. I haven't herd any complaints about any of them. If I hadn't bought the ASUS it would have likely been an HP.