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Post by OasisNZ on Jan 13, 2009 17:53:26 GMT 12
Could this be the cause of a hard drive failure?
Like, would it perhaps make the hard drive work harder?
Had a spare stick so I thought I was doing some friends a favour by doubling their RAM, since then their hard drive has begun to crash!
wzzzzzzzzzz...ting... (only a real geek may understand what I mean there, haha!)
Have advised them to not reboot till I get there, in the hope I can boot it up and save everything they need to disk, then chuck another drive in it for them...
What would you do?
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Post by Suzie on Jan 13, 2009 18:47:01 GMT 12
I'd call the resident PC Tech, and demand he do something, or else he gets no dinner.
However, he's not here right now, but if you don't want to risk booting it up, you could take the HDD out and place it as a secondary HDD in another PC, to get important files like photos etc off it. I'm no expert, but I'd get anything important off it before it dies completely. Will check with the geek when it gets home. There is a programme you can use in this situation, perhaps email me if you need more help.
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Post by aztec on Jan 13, 2009 19:48:13 GMT 12
RAM and hard drive are unrelated.
The drive could be failing (failed even) but it's more likely to be a glitch in the operating system caused by a virus or spyware or similar.
Hard drives are pretty rugged devices and nearly always outlive the usefulness of the box that contains them
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