Dell notebook's hard drive diagnostics

The most Dell laptop and desktop computers with a practical use for them already in the execution of at least one form of diagnostic evaluation, if you need some temporary solutions are built. This article shows how to test your computer's desktop hard drive or what to install in a Dell laptop.

Some symptoms to what extent you should suspect that the hard drive or is bad or has some bad : Includes

No POST - your laptop or desktop computer just crashes and does nothing when turned on. You can sit with the lights, but do nothing. E 'possible to record a few seconds and then shuts off again.

Error - instead of the Windows startup screen on a laptop that completes the POST displays an error message, carrier may say that there is no boot device, or perhaps there is a mountable volume.

Sluggish performance - Often, when a> Hard drive does not work, you have some kind of a heads-up for this unfortunate circumstance of witnessing a significant decline in the performance of the system when it is) actually in the handset OS (operating system.

Windows warning - Microsoft Windows has no way of actually warns you with a message that will appear on the screen that you know so that you save, then back up all important data immediately, because a hard disk failureis imminent. Now, it is not necessarily a good idea to wait until you see this message, because it is often a hard drive is completely bad, useless without this warning seems to be always on your screen at all.

ORs Dell laptop computer desktop, you will probably find a handy utility that allows you to take a quick test on the hard disk. This test is very reliable, at least to determine if the hard diskreally gone bad.

The way in which you can access this test is as follows:
Turn on your Dell computer, you see the Dell splash screen, then a message is very short, with respect to F2 and F12 shown in the top right of your laptop or desktop. The trick is to press the F12 key on the right of the keyboard when you see the message in F2 and F12 at the top right of the screen.

Opens, select a BIOS boot menu, and you will simply bewhich is a diagnostic on the hard disk. Various models of Dell desktop or laptop offer different options depending on your SATA or IDE. Once the selected test drive. After two minutes five minutes ago or so, depending on the size of the hard disk, you can see the results of the test. The results are both a step, or an error code. The difficult thing to remember with DellDrive diagnostics is that half the return code 7 error that your hard drive replacement may vary. Back up all important data that you can take your laptop or desktop, and difficult to replace.