[AT] OT - laptop hard drive

[ATIS]

Crystaldiskinfo is free and will read the SMART data in the drive and show you if you are really having errors or not.  Run that first.

The symptoms you describe could be many things, most notably the processor(i.e. Heat/fan problems)

Spencer Yost

> On Nov 10, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Mike <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all, I have a Dell laptop that is about 8 years old running windows 
> 7. I have a hunch that the hard drive may be on it's way out, it takes 
> forever to boot, it freezes for no reason, and now I'm getting random 
> blue screens that pop up out of no where. I've run every malware and 
> antivirus I have and everything is clean. I've installed hard drives in 
> desktops before, but never a laptop. How hard is it, and what type 
> should I be looking for? Any advantage going with 7200 rpm vs 5400 rpm. 
> Right now the computer has a 500GB SATA Samsung hard drive; apparently 
> Samsung was bought out by Seagate.  Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Mike M
> 
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