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My laptops HDD died
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  May 10 2007, 02:32 PM
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Headmaster  Group: Administrators Posts: 8,056 Joined: 24-October 02 From: Shanghai (CN) Member No.: 255   |
Wow so this is a great day for me.
As soon as I wake up first thing I learn: our image server was shut down by our server provider as it was being used by hackers to send spam and "phishing". Great. So as I'm about to look and check the server, boom: my laptops HDD dies. Actually it was nothing like a boom. I was just using my pc checking my mail with firefox, then suddenly the PC freezes and I hear a slightly clicky noise coming from my HDD. So I turn the PC off and guess what? it doesnt boot anymore. Both Fedora and XP fail during startup. XP gives me a black screen immediatly and doesnt do anything. Fedora displays some text then crashes when trying to access the HDD. I'm surprised because some files can still be read from the HDD apparently, small files like the multiboot loader (grub) or the system initialization sequence of windows and linux. I also tried loading a linux liveCD but it failed because at some point it tried to access my HDD, and got stuck in an infinite error loop. So, in short, what are my options? |
   
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May 10 2007, 02:38 PM
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Lemonade by Psyfira  Group: Members Posts: 1,071 Joined: 31-May 04 Member No.: 23,624  |
its dead get a new HD. If you want to save the contents of the old HD u can buy a external case for it and connect it on your working pc/laptop. Maybe you can find something in it. Otherwise you can spend hundreds of dollars to send it over to a place where they will try and get all th econtent out for you.
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May 10 2007, 02:40 PM
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GBAtemp Regular  Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 10-December 06 Member No.: 58,287  |
Get another one, mine also crashed while I was surfing the net, the laptop stoped and when i rebooted it, it simply won't pass from bios screen.
If you want to use a livecd, as i did till my hdd arrived you can disable de hardisk from the bios. Good luck! laptops hdds slightly more expensive that common ones, but as we usually don't need much space on laptops it's okay with a small one, mine was 40gb and when it broke i bought 80gb for 50€ |
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May 10 2007, 02:45 PM
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Headmaster Group: Administrators Posts: 8,056 Joined: 24-October 02 From: Shanghai (CN) Member No.: 255 |
I cant disable my HDD in the bios... I tried
there is barely any option my bios which kinda sucks |
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May 10 2007, 02:48 PM
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President  Group: Members Posts: 2,187 Joined: 6-September 03 From: USA Member No.: 16,327  |
do the hdd freezer trick
its like the cheap over solder trick |
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May 10 2007, 03:00 PM
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GBAtemp Regular Group: Members Posts: 114 Joined: 10-December 06 Member No.: 58,287 |
QUOTE(Costello @ May 10 2007, 03:45 PM) I cant disable my HDD in the bios... I tried there is barely any option my bios which kinda sucks  so take it out, i just had to remove 2 philips screws. Laptop still works without hdd, I recommend you sabayon linux livecd, it's very complete and everything works out of the box |
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May 10 2007, 04:44 PM
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GBAtemp Regular Group: Members Posts: 136 Joined: 26-April 07 From: Kansas Member No.: 77,046 |
You Probably don't have to take it out. Some live CDs have options to ignore your hard drives (Knoppix's 'nofstab' for example). Its easier than removing the drive, plus you could try manually mounting it to see if any data is recoverable.
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May 10 2007, 04:51 PM
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GBAtemp Regular Group: Members Posts: 193 Joined: 2-May 03 From: Manchester Member No.: 12,471  |
BartPE may work costello. Just a thought, I havn't used it much though and whether it accesses the HDD or not I'm not sure.
Good Luck 
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May 10 2007, 04:58 PM
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Headmaster Group: Administrators Posts: 8,056 Joined: 24-October 02 From: Shanghai (CN) Member No.: 255 |
yeah I know about that, I tried it once but was never able to build an iso. Shame!
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May 10 2007, 05:25 PM
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GBAtemp Fan Group: Members Posts: 455 Joined: 16-February 05 From: Eastern Time zone Member No.: 29,939 |
get one of these.
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-USB-to-IDE-SATA-AT...1QQcmdZViewItem their cheap and work well for all drive types.. IDE,SATA,LAPTOP then get you another drive and reinstall your system, use the above mention cable to get what you can recover off, then run all kinds of diagnostics on the old drive, or use some of the drive recovery programs out. Like partition magic, ontrack as a shareware recovery program. Pray that its not to physically damaged.. Most clicking noises are caused by the drive arm smacking against the stop bar on the drive. due to the motor trying to push it past its physical limits. if it only clicks randomly its plausable you can get data, if its steady and repeating.. its more than likley gone. |
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May 10 2007, 05:32 PM
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President Group: Members Posts: 2,187 Joined: 6-September 03 From: USA Member No.: 16,327 |
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May 10 2007, 05:42 PM
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GBAtemp Regular Group: Members Posts: 245 Joined: 24-December 06 Member No.: 60,062 |
get a new drive and reinstall, I doubt your laptop has 2 HDD bays so if you can get a friends pc connect the drive to their pc and try to extract as much as you can. Sometimes the drive will read even if it won't boot.
This is a non exact science but u may need to tilt the thing about till it begine to read problems are almost always mechanical so u can jiggle stuff into place. Last time i had a HDD fail I attempted to open it up and then jammed some tinfoil into the reader mechanism to stop it from clicking down got about half of the stuff off before it broke completly |
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May 10 2007, 09:51 PM
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Headmaster Group: Administrators Posts: 8,056 Joined: 24-October 02 From: Shanghai (CN) Member No.: 255 |
I'm thinking of buying this one:
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...duct_uid=108820 any advice or recommendation? I'll try to recover data later... |
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May 10 2007, 09:56 PM
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GBAtemp Regular Group: Members Posts: 233 Joined: 24-June 06 Member No.: 43,251 |
Once you get a replacement, it's definitely worth trying the freezer trick as mentioned above. I was able to salvage and copy off the data from a couple of older HD's that wouldn't spin up by doing that.
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May 10 2007, 10:09 PM
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President Group: Members Posts: 2,187 Joined: 6-September 03 From: USA Member No.: 16,327 |
QUOTE(Costello @ May 10 2007, 03:51 PM) I'm thinking of buying this one: http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products/in...duct_uid=108820 any advice or recommendation? I'll try to recover data later... i gave you two free ideas and you didn't listen to me |
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