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Toshiba Satellite A500D PRO Hard Drive
Hard disk drives can come in varying physical sizes and brands. Your Toshiba Satellite A500D PRO has a hard drive which holds all of the data for the computer. Due to the sensitive nature of the drives, they can go out whenever they want for a wide variety of reasons. Swapping hard drives is quite a simple task if you know what you are doing, obviously. The type of hard drive to purchase depends on your laptop. The capacity size of the drive is simply a matter of choice as almost all computers will be able to handle any capacity size.
What symptoms are present when the HDD is failing?
- The system may hesitate to begin loading and may only boot up once in a while
- Your laptop is jerky or is slow to respond off and on through the day
- Your Toshiba laptop may crash when you view a particular program
- On some older computers you may hear a tick, tick, tick sound coming from within the computer
- The Toshiba laptop crashes randomly throughout the day
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