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Upgraded hard drive, windows 7 hangs randomly on start loading screen
I upgraded my laptop hard drive to a hitachi gst travelstar 1tb 7200 rpm on 5-11-13. This morning 5-25-13 laptop started hanging on the windows loading screen with hard drive activity from a cold boot. It's done this total of 5 times, it's random, most of the time it boots up fine. After 15 min of waiting I hold the power button down to turn it off, that's the only time the health drops. Currently my laptop is running great, no problems at all. Looking at hd sentinel, it shows hard drive health at 88% and it says 'the drive tried to examine and reallocate data sector(s) 20 times. The examined data area is perfect. At this point, warranty replacement of the disk is not yet possible, only if the health drops further.' Surface disk check from HD tune and easeUS partition master reported zero bad sectors (all green). Raw read error rate is 196,609 at the time is started. It's been at 0 so far. I've created a full image with macrium reflect on an external hd and I downloaded WD data life guard and will perform a disk check with that later in the next couple days. While upgrading I lost one of the screws that holds it into the enclosure. I'm really worried, this never happened before.