 OT: Harddrive Failure . . . what to do? |
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| jd74914 |
 Jan 1 2008, 01:27 PM
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Ok guys, I figured I would ask here since many of you seem very computer savvy.
Today I was using my PC (its an HP Pavilion a1540n) and the computer suddenly froze. It gave me an error message saying that it could not read the hard disk and restarted. When I restarted windows the drive started making terrible noises and windows wouldn't load. Its still giving the cannot read errors. I'm pretty sure the hard drive is toasted . . . How do I go about fixing my computer. I don't care so much about the data on the current drive, but I do need the computer to work. I do not have my recovery disk (I lost it somewhere). How do I install a new hard drive and get the computer started again. Thanks in advance for any help. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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| solex |
Jan 1 2008, 01:59 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 789 Joined: 12-January 05 From: Long Island, NY Member No.: 3,439 Region Association: North East States |
The following steps assume the drive is some what readable, meaning the drive still spins but has bad bytes or blocks. I have used the following to recover machines that no longer boot. No promises but I have done the following a few times with great success.
1. Get a copy of Knoppix (free) 2. Install a new hard drive make sure it is the first on the IDE chain and the master, preferably the same size as the original. 3. Make your bad hard drive the slave 4. boot Knoppix from your cd rom 5. Use the DD (linux command) to move the contents of the old drive to the new drive (but should continue on failure of read) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix) 6. reboot your machine dd will read your original drive byte-by-byte and can be configured to ignore bytes it cannot read. pm me if you have any more questions |
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jd74914 OT: Harddrive Failure . . . what to do? Jan 1 2008, 01:27 PM
Porcharu buy a new disk (make sure it is the correct type P... Jan 1 2008, 01:41 PM davep You may want to give HP a call. First you need to ... Jan 1 2008, 01:42 PM sendjonathanmail once you get the pc up and running again, I sugges... Jan 2 2008, 03:42 PM
Sarastro I buy very little (read none) software preferring ... Jan 3 2008, 02:59 PM |
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