My Computer Is Proper Fucked!
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Joined: Mar 2003
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From: ATX
You can send the drive to a data recovery business. They will remove the platters from the drive, read them on their machines, and burn all of your data to CD's. If you have data on there you cant live without, I would recommend it.
Sometimes the 5" drive drop works on getting the HD functional for a short period of time. Pull it out of your laptop and drop it on a table from about 5" in the air. Sometimes this will unstick them temporarilly. Not highly recommended by the company holding your warranty though...
Sometimes the 5" drive drop works on getting the HD functional for a short period of time. Pull it out of your laptop and drop it on a table from about 5" in the air. Sometimes this will unstick them temporarilly. Not highly recommended by the company holding your warranty though...
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Joined: Dec 2002
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From: Fort Lauderdale, FL
I know how you feel srce, my "mad cow" HD died on me with over 12Gig of Video, Music, 500+ pics that I already deleted from my digi cam (including fam, my first rx7--RIP--, my MR2, and **** load more.)
I Might have to try the 5" drop. hell. its only a gateway.
I Might have to try the 5" drop. hell. its only a gateway.
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From: IL
Should keep backups on an immobile computer. hard drives have quite a high failure rate, especially in laptops which are usually used in a pretty hostile evironment (hostile for hard drives that is).
Sucks man, it's happened to me a number of times... mostly on my laptops. At work we have so many machines constantly running that we see the failure rate, and sometimes it gets ridiculous. I've had to restore multiple systems simultaneously from backups due to hard drive failures, in the same ******* night. Thats with high end SCSI drives even.
Maybe start burning things to CD/DVD or using tapes.
Sucks man, it's happened to me a number of times... mostly on my laptops. At work we have so many machines constantly running that we see the failure rate, and sometimes it gets ridiculous. I've had to restore multiple systems simultaneously from backups due to hard drive failures, in the same ******* night. Thats with high end SCSI drives even.
Maybe start burning things to CD/DVD or using tapes.
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From: Fayetteville, Georgia
****! Save the music man!
Laptops never seemed very reliable to me, I mean, all those little parts in such a hot environment...
The best thing to do is let it sit...with the power off of course, sometimes hardware problems fix themselves.
Laptops never seemed very reliable to me, I mean, all those little parts in such a hot environment...
The best thing to do is let it sit...with the power off of course, sometimes hardware problems fix themselves.
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From: IL
Originally Posted by Dysfnctnl85' date='Aug 30 2003, 12:51 AM
****! Save the music man!
Laptops never seemed very reliable to me, I mean, all those little parts in such a hot environment...
The best thing to do is let it sit...with the power off of course, sometimes hardware problems fix themselves.
Laptops never seemed very reliable to me, I mean, all those little parts in such a hot environment...
The best thing to do is let it sit...with the power off of course, sometimes hardware problems fix themselves.