Re: Upcoming Hard Drive Failure?

Jason Ducharme <jaydude@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

> I bought this notebook brand new 6 months ago. It's an ACER Aspire
> 3003WLCi. Recently I've had a lot of problems with applications "not
> responding" and having to be closed. Upon reboot recently i'm
> getting the message that one of my hard disks needs to be checked for
> conisistency. It does a checkup of the disk (takes a long time) and
> then it reports that "Windows replaced bad clusters in file .... " Does
> this mean that my hard drive is failing (has failed?) and needs
> to be rebuilt/replaced?

Maybe, bit early to say yet. It could just be due to not shutting down
properly.

> Should I contact ACER about this problem (I
> think I have 1 year warranty on the machine.)

Yes.


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