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Acer Aspire 5742G Hard Drive
Replacing a hard drive is an easy job if you know what you are doing, of course! Your Acer Aspire 5742G contains a hdd, or hard disk drive, that stores all of the information for the computer. Due to the delicate nature of a hard drive, they will fail you at any time for any number of reasons! Hard disk drives are manufactured in many different capacities and brands. The type of hard drive to buy all depends on your particlular computer. The capacity size of the hard drive is quite simply a personal choice as almost all computers can accept any sized drive.
Major symptoms of an inadequate HDD
- Your laptop halts or becomes unresponsive at random times
- It may hesitate to load and may not ever fully boot
- On some older computers you could possible hear a tick, tick, tick sound resonating from the computer
- The computer may crash suddenly at seemingly random times even while using it
- Your Acer laptop shuts down when you view a particular file
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