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Re: Computer help

« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2007, 06:58:53 PM »

That sound means it probably is a physical problem with your drive, unfortunately.


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Re: Computer help

« Reply #16 on: February 05, 2007, 07:03:29 PM »

If you are getting a clicking sound when you boot the laptop this usually means the cyclinders inside the hard drive are gone and the hard drive in layman's terms is knackered. A new hard drive wont be particularly expensive but you would need a copy of windows xp on cd and you would also need to be able to download the drivers for the laptop from the manufactorer's website. Once you have replaced the hard drive you could buy a cable to attach the old hard drive to a desktop pc to possibly get any data off of it. There's no guarantee that you will be able to access the data on the old hard drive though. If you need any more help drop me PM.


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Re: Computer help

« Reply #17 on: February 05, 2007, 07:07:51 PM »

Thanks!


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Re: Computer help

« Reply #18 on: February 05, 2007, 10:14:22 PM »

hmmmm, sounds to me like it is time to buy a new lappie. Check out ebay.


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Re: Computer help

« Reply #19 on: February 05, 2007, 10:17:05 PM »

A brand new laptop hard drive can be had for <£40 though, seems a waste to chuck the whole caboodle out...


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Re: Computer help

« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2007, 02:37:40 PM »

Did you get into recovery console and log into the windows install? Did you try to reinstall? How far did you get / where did it fail?

You can go in to your BIOS and see if it can detect the hard drive. Its hard to tell you exactly what you need to do, but usually you hit the DEL key as soon as it starts up. If the BIOS can see the hard drive it's a good thing, if not then it's def bust. If you take the hard drive out and see what make it is, you can then go to the manufacturers website and download the diagnosis software, most have some. Run that and it will tell you if its dead or not. Then you can usually return the hard drive depending on who makes it, Seagate have a 5year warranty on theirs.

I assume the laptop is out of warranty?


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