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Denzil_DC

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11. Dell has its own suite of system checking utilities.
Sun Sep 10, 2017, 06:39 PM
Sep 2017

Check out the Dell page here:

http://www.dell.com/support/article/uk/en/ukbsdt1/sln146180/understanding-and-troubleshooting-your-hard-drive?lang=en

I'd go through the whole page (I'd set some time aside for the whole process), but in particular, look at Item 3:

Item 3: Dell Hard Drive Diagnostics

If you suspect your hard drive of failing, you can run diagnostics to test the Hard Drive.

Click the following link to be taken to the Dell Hard Drive Diagnostics page for further assistance.

If you are unable to boot the system to access the Dell Online Diagnostics, use the Dell Pre-boot System Diagnostics.


You've had some good advice above. Above all, you don't want to ignore or disable that alert, but take some action on it.

What that will be depends on how serious a problem you have, but if nothing else, I'd take this as a massive hint to backup any data that's important to you.

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