My laptop is a hard disk killer!! Is it possible?

[mondovila]

I have a 3 year old Toshiba satellite laptop that appears to be killing each hard drive that i put into it. The original harddrive lasted 3 years and within the last two months I have replaced it with Toshiba harddrives that die - one lasted a month, the 2nd a week, and the third two weeks. The fan appears to be working fine and when I first installed the drives everything was excellent until i get the message, when i first turn it on, that a hard disk failure is imminent. I run the diagnostic check that comes up after that and it freezes at about 67%. Is it possible that something in my laptop is killing the drives? The only thing I've downloaded to my computer is Allods, a free online game, but I haven't heard of any problems related to that, and other than playing that game I don't do much with it other than surfing the web. I consistently use CCleaner and the registry cleaner. Could it be that something in my computer is making the drives die? 3 drives in two months or is Toshiba selling crap through Fry's? Thanks for any suggestions.

 

[sminlal]

I would suspect a heat problem. Try using a utility like "DiskCheckup" to look at the drive's SMART data to see what the drive's temperature is.

 

[mondovila]

Thank you Addict. Unfortunately, I'm not able to turn on the computer now and tried to erase the harddisk and reload the system but all I get is an error now. Luckily I bought a warranty which will replace the drive with a new one. I will do that and do the diskcheckup once i install it. The fan seems to be working properly but it does seem to be kind of slow, so maybe the fan is getting screwed up. Thanks for your input!