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

[DonTraver]

I had just run my spy ware and virus programs a couple days ago, just found some cookies no viruses. Most of the time I just go to email and 914club, I do click on some of the links the guys post.

Everytime I try to access the C drive I get Invalid Drive.

I just pulled out the boxes that came with the computers with all the software disks. I haven;t opened those boxes in years. I can't find the Windows XP disks, I had a set for each computer, wtf. damn. Everything else is there, except the op disks. Even if I got a new drive, how to load it?

I have a real mess now, cause I opened even software box I had, did I put them in a special place so I wouldn't lose them, I don't think so. So guess I'll go clean up the mess.

What now, Don