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Acer Extensa 4620 Hard Drive
Your Acer Extensa 4620 has a hdd, or hard disk drive, which is in charge of storing all of the data for the computer. Putting in a new hard drive is pretty straight forward if you have an idea of what you are doing, of course! Due to the delicate nature of a hard drive, they will fail you whenever they want for a wide variety of reasons. Hard drives come in varying capacities and brands. The type of hard drive that you would need to purchase all depends on your particlular computer. The capacity size of the hdd is simply a personal choice as most computers will be able to accommodate any size hard drive you install.
What happens when my hard drive is failing?
- With older hard drives you may notice a tick, tick, tick sound coming from within the computer
- Your laptop is jerky or does weird stuff at random times
- The Acer laptop may crash suddenly at random times even while using it
- The system may hesitate to begin loading and may only boot up once in a while
- The laptop freezes when you use certain programs
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