Thread: Compjter nerds, need a hand diagnosing my laptop

Last night scanning with HPT it gave me an odd error. Call it a technical difficulty. Just wouldn't connect.

This morning I remote into work and all is going well. Then I get a nice little pop up "Hard Failure". Had to crash out via power off, and it won't reboot. Tries to consider windows, hits a millisecond BSD and back to how to boot. (ie normal, safe etc).

Pulled the HD out in trying to diagnose and hooked up with a SATA to USB adapter to the desktop. Here's what she does...


I'd like to conclude that most likely ....that's a DOA HD.

Looked up the old guy. Fijitsu 160gb Sata II. Wonder if any of the local places have an SII. I doubt the pc would recognize newer Sata's? Anyone tell me different?

A Dell Inspiron 1545, Model PP41L I know..it's old..it works like a champ though.

bill you fix it yet! and make sure you put a drill bit throught that drive for extra security when you toss it

osha? who cares about OSHA, there just a bunch of sharks

Try freezing the drive for 15 minutes and plug it in externally and grab your ****.

Otherwise if nothing still your SOL, unless you pay for data recovery services.

I have a Spare 500gb floatin' around. Do you want it?

I did that once

you froze your it and grabbed your dick? wrong dude, epic wrong lol

I tried freezing...no luck. And also no data to be lost. Only thing I kept on it that I even remotely cared about is the tuning folder that I have. Bins, software, info etc. All that is backed up on about 5 different people's pc's and a flash drive I recently picked up...plus my own desktop.

just send the whole thing my way and we can work it out lol

Too late. After work, I nabbed a $50 drive from Bestbuy (original drive was 160gig, new is 250gig and I don't leave much on there, so no need to spend real money on a bigger drive.

OS loaded right up like a champ (thanks for the help Slick), and I was using it last night to help a friend recover data off her DOA laptop's harddrive.

Thanks again for all the help guys.. Lappy is back up and running like a champ.

No problem Bill, Anytime.