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Originally Posted by mikesinner
I think it's just from pulling the plug to much. I just bought this laptop and when windows freezes I tent to just shut off the power. I'm going to start rebooting from now on.
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Oh never do that, when you do that the hard drive does not park, if it was in active seek. This can let the seek arms have play in it, you even just put your laptop in the back the bag and the arms wiggles and goes against the platters and its by by hard drive. Always reboot and shut it down the correct way, pulling the plug is called a hard shut down for a reason, it can totally destroy a machine. If for any reason a machine locks up even a desktop hold the power button in till the machine shuts down. Never just unplug one..