Found my old Dell Vostro laptop, which was not in use for about 4 years. Made some cleaning, checked connectors, changed thermal paste...
HDD failed to boot and BIOS was unable to recognize it.
Everything else passed internal tests and seem to work just fine.
Then HDD booted (I did nothing, it just happened). But now I'm afraid to start laptop and run HDDScan: if it is some mechanical problem, next failure can be devastating.
So, basically, what may it be? Can you approximate risk of major damage if I just boot and try to go through scan? Or should I just go and buy new HDD?
