Last week I had to take my beloved Dell in for the following reasons:
The "Q" loves sticking so I literally have to whack it a few times
The mouse pad on the laptop doesn't work, well it does on and off, but I have to have a legit mouse in order to use it at all
The DVD/CD drive doesn't work
Yesterday I finally picked it up, to learn they had tried to call several times. Seems as though I left my number, but they only used my mom's. Meh.
While speaking with the Geek Squad representative, he informed me that my hard drive was slowly dying and that I needed to back up everything on my laptop. Get a Google Docs account, online storage, or massive external hard drive to store everything.
Coming home I spoke with my father about it, as he's a tech and basically does everything GS does, only for oil rigs and stuff like that. He told me to run my own diagnostics and see what happened.
Now, I know the 1-4-2 is the sound of death for any laptop.
I figured, nah, mine won't do that! My laptop is invincible!
I've had this Dell since 2012 (thereabouts) and have never had a problem .... until now.
Last night, once it completed the other tests I heard the dreaded noise.
One beep.
Four beeps.
Two beeps.
Now I'm trying to make room on some external hard drives to move massive amounts of music, movies, pictures, and all of my writing.
Do any of you have an idea about what kind of hard drive to replace this dying one with?
Despite being a bit broken, my Dell still runs and functions faster and better than the HP I bought almost two years ago. (By a massive landslide!) (And no crappy Windows 10 either!)
Leave any suggestions below, or comment with any suggestions you might have.
Have a fantastic week!
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