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| DonTraver |
 Mar 13 2006, 09:31 AM
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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 |
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| Spoke |
Mar 13 2006, 10:44 AM
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Jerry Group: Members Posts: 7,158 Joined: 29-October 04 From: Allentown, PA Member No.: 3,031 Region Association: None 
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I had a similar issue with my desktop PC where the thing would try to boot, then die. With a DOS setup floppy, I could see the C: drive and stuff on it, but it wouldn't boot. So I took the drive to my buddy's house to try at least to back up some pics I had on it. When my drive was connected to his computer as a slave, his Norton Antivirus program went crazy. So we scrubbed the drive with Norton and about 2500 files were infected. After cleaning, the drive worked fine in my PC, and I immediately bought an Antivirus program.
Good Luck, Spoke |
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DonTraver OT- Laptop Hard Drive Mar 13 2006, 09:31 AM
bd1308 *ANY* drive will work just fine.
I'll install... Mar 13 2006, 09:44 AM anthony If your drive is ntfs formatted (most likely unles... Mar 13 2006, 09:48 AM bd1308 yeah but 'fdisk' in dos will see a non-dos... Mar 13 2006, 09:53 AM DonTraver Here's what I get when I try to boot.
We apol... Mar 13 2006, 10:19 AM bd1308 yep. something in the start-up phase in windows is... Mar 13 2006, 10:23 AM SoCal Driver If you are using XP and you have a windows XP CD y... Mar 13 2006, 11:10 AM DonTraver I had just run my spy ware and virus programs a co... Mar 13 2006, 11:19 AM bd1308 well if you need me, pm me or go to my link and fi... Mar 13 2006, 11:29 AM DonTraver I found the disk, yay.
Anyway, put it in the D ... Mar 13 2006, 11:40 AM newto914s Same thing happen to me around three months ago. A... Mar 13 2006, 02:18 PM bd1308 ask Z, his drive was clicking and I got everything... Mar 13 2006, 02:20 PM
newto914s I´ll be in KY the week before Easter visiting my ... Mar 13 2006, 02:53 PM |
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