Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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Left my PC on last night to download stuff, woke up this morning and all it was doing was showing a 'BOOT DISK ERROR' and the hard drive was making a strange noise.
Basically it seems my hard drive has f*cked up and in the process the computer has rebooted itself and now doesn't detect any hard drives, and thus can't load any operating system and shows this error.
The hard drive still spins up (you can hear it spin up and spin down when you switch the pc off) - but it make a noise (the needle moving?) like a small whine noise - again and again and again... hard to explain but basically its not good at all.
I'm on my other PC (as for obvious reasons I can't use the broken pc) - but its definately the hard drive and not something like motherboard as I pluged the hard drive into this pc and it did exactly the same.
What's actually wrong with the hard drive do you think? (needle?) do you think it can be repaired and if not is there any way of getting the data off?
Thanks,
Paul J
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supacook2k
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connect it up to another pc with space on the hard drive and copy files across
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Mistamist
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Looks like you have damaged sectors on your hard drive, try and slave the hard drive and copy over all the files you need then throw it in the bin. mine did this a few weeks back.
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Paul_J
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quote:
Originally posted by supacook2k
connect it up to another pc with space on the hard drive and copy files across
This won't work... the hard drive isn't even being recognised by the bios... It doesn't seem to be reading anything off it at all.
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Steve
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plug the hdd in ur working machine set jumper on back to cable select then plug it in place of the cdrom in the working pc. if the drive domt appear in windows its prolly fucked, dus the bios detect it on startup?
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willay
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click of death, hard drives had it by the sounds of it.
You can get the data off, it involes booting off another hard drive, mounting the other one and then trying to get as much data off it as possible.
Also some people have had success putting their hard drive in the freezer and then slappiing it into their computer again, they get a few hours of use (enough to rip all your data off) then it goes GAY again.
Try google.
No point getting it repaired, if its physical damage then it will cost alot, buy a replacement and shift your data else where.
and in future.
backup backup backup
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Steve
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lol just read replie
bios of hdd is fucked no way out without paying a specialist lots of money
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willay
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freezing your hard disk:
http://www.meetmyattorney.com/slink/mt-archives/000275.html
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willay
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part two:
http://www.meetmyattorney.com/slink/mt-archives/000517.html
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Andy Stocker
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I had to buy a new hard drive 
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ed
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Head crash... Your HD has gone bang bang. 
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