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Compaq Presario 5BW284 Hard Drive
Installing a hard drive can be quite easy if you know what you are doing, of course! Hard disk drives are made in different physical sizes and types. Your Compaq Presario 5BW284 contains a hdd, or hard disk drive, which contains the data for the computer. Hard drives can be touchy and they will fail you at any time for any number of reasons! The type of hard drive that you would need to get all depends on the connection inside your particlular computer. The storage size of the drive is simply a matter of choice as just about any computer can accept any sized drive.
Major warnings that the all-important hard drive is in need of replacing
- Your Compaq desktop freezes when you use a particular file
- Your system freezes or is slow to respond at random times
- With older hard drives you could possible hear a tick, tick, tick sound resonating from the computer
- The computer may shut down without warning while in use
- The operating system may take forever to boot up and may not ever fully boot
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