Vostro freezing and slow boot up

Hxc · 8 Nov 2007 at 18:58

Dying HDD?

Trixter · 19 Nov 2007 at 12:06

panthro · 20 Nov 2007 at 11:53

If it is a physical HDD problem, then Dell would replace it for free as it should be covered by at least their base 12 month warranty.

HaX · 20 Nov 2007 at 22:29

Normally when I've seen them, atapi and disk errors have been indicative of a faulty hard disk.

I would personally run chkdsk /f from the command prompt (you will need to reboot in order for it to run) to rule a file system issue out as being the problem.

Trixter · 26 Nov 2007 at 10:33

farooqm · 26 Nov 2007 at 15:17

I'd get on to Dell soonish.... they should swap it out for you.

Trixter · 27 Nov 2007 at 19:21