I've had Dell machines all my life and was always happy with them. Last November, I finally replaced my beloved 9-year-old Inspiron with an Inspiron 5758.
Three months later, the hard drive crashed and was replaced under warranty. Six months after that, the replacement failed. I replaced it myself with a Seagate. Now, 3 months later, that one has failed.
The original had Windows 7 factory installed. After the first crash, I used an image to restore. After the second crash, I had to do a fresh install because I didn't think there was any way I'd suffer another crash so soon and had become lax in backing up.
I'm prone to hibernating and have heard W7 doesn't handle that well. In all the crashes, however, I had recently shut down/restarted and was not coming off of a hibernatation. I had a couple browsers, Excel, and the like open. In all the cases, programs had became unresponsive, the machine blue screened, and then wouldn't boot, with "no hard drive found." Using a case, I could connect via USB and retrieve data from the first, not the second (boot record destroyed), and unsure on third (image running now on new drive).
I'm wondering if anyone knows if there's is à known model-specific issue with the mother board or other part, Windows 7 corruption issue, or something else I should be considering.
I'm at the point where I run file backups daily and images monthly, which I know it's a good practice, but I'm more than a little frustrated. The expense, down time, and setup are far too stressful. My prior Dell had the drive replaced twice in 9 years.
Any feedback appreciated.
