OT- Laptop Hard Drive, Think it died Options

[DonTraver]

I've got a Dell Inspiron 2650 with a Hitichi Model DK23DA-30F Hard Drive. It won't boot up, when I use a boot disk it will boot to the A: drive in DOS, when I try to go to the C:\ drive, says it isn't there. Think the hard drive has failed, not sure, but I've never had one fail before.

2 questions.

1. Is the drive gone?

2. Does anyone know where I can get another one, I called Dell, they want $170 for a new drive. Looking on the web, I see a lot of drives 60 gig and below for under $100, just haven't found one with the right part number.

This drive is a 30 gig, a 20 gig would do, I don't download any music or stuff like that, mostly store pictures, files, etc.

I just backed up everything on the desktop, the laptop was my backup, lol. Murphy Rules.

Thanks, Don

[bd1308]

yep. something in the start-up phase in windows is crashing, thats why you get the physical memory dump....and the blue screen :joy:

if you need data off of that drive I can help you get that off...

reinstalling windows *MIGHT* be a answer, but if that data is important, i wouldnt risk it.

your data is still good, but the XP install is not booting correctly, for one of a thousand reasons (solar flares)

b