Wolverhampton PC Hard Drives
What a hard drive does?
Also know as hard disk and HDD, hard drives were invented a long time ago now, the technology and their ability are still very clever and complex. Inside the casing of a hard drive is a metal disk (platter) often made out of aluminium. On this disk is a highly polished magnetic medium similar to the medium found on a cassette or VHS tape. Just above the disk there is an arm, this arm moves a head around the disk, the head handles the reading and writing of all the data on the disk. The arm can move up and down the disk as much as 50 times a second. The disk will normally be spinning at 7,200 RPM.
What are the symptoms of a faulty hard drive?
There are many symptoms to a faulty hard drive one of the most common is the computer just freezing.
You may get blue screens (BSOD).
You may get error messages such as – Unable to read disk – PXE media test failure.
Sometimes you just get random behaviour and it not until a full diagnosis is done that you confirm the fault with the dive.
Causes?
As you can read above, hard drives work very hard, the spinning and moving parts inside them are very delicate. What actually causes most hard drive failures is when the head crashes onto the disk, this will ruin the magnetic media and will corrupt the data. This can simply be caused by moving the laptop around when its on, the hard drive gets too hot, or irregular power to the hard drive caused by faulty power leads or DC Jacks.
How long will the replacement or repair take?
Diagnosis is normally done on the same day depending on when you book your repair and when its collected. The required repair will normally be done the next day.
Cost?
We are very confident of our prices just ask us for a quote buy following the link below or calling us on 01902 343564
Prices start from £15.00 for diagnosis
*Diagnosis is only payable if you don’t go ahead with the repair or reinstall.
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