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    DON'T use Advanced SystemCare Smart Defrag

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by mohaa7, May 5, 2012.

  1. mohaa7

    mohaa7 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey guys,

    I bought my M11x R2 in October 2010 and I had no problem until yesterday.
    I was going to give Advanced SystemCare's Smart Defrag a try while I went to bed.
    The next day, my hard drive was in a total mess. I couldn't even boot up my baby.
    Without even allowing me to go to options by pressing F8, it just went straight to start up fix. Start up fix loop.
    This piece of **** program literally wasted my whole Friday.

    Just my friendly warning to you guys... it might happen to anyone out there.
     
    mohaa7, May 5, 2012
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  2. ajslay

    ajslay Overclocker, PC Builder

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    iv used it. no problems here.
     
    ajslay, May 5, 2012
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  3. darkdomino

    darkdomino Notebook Deity

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    I've had a whole lot of luck with Auslogics on both my m11x and m17x. It works really well and it's free.
     
    darkdomino, May 5, 2012
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  4. Rypac

    Rypac Notebook Evangelist

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    Sorry to hear about that mohaa, thanks for the warning. It seems to work well for other people so maybe you were just really unlucky.

    At least there is no worry about defragging with a SSD. ;)
     
    Rypac, May 5, 2012
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  5. mohaa7

    mohaa7 Notebook Evangelist

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    That's why I was considering changing to SSD but I just decided to save money for a new laptop..
    Unfortunately, M11x R2 is getting old and weak for the newly released games..
     
    mohaa7, May 6, 2012
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  6. kcljj

    kcljj Notebook Geek

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    Hmm, I've never had any problems with it. I wonder what went wrong.
     
    kcljj, May 6, 2012
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