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CookieCrumb

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Posted: Tue, 29th Jun 2010 16:52 Post subject: Notebook trouble

First of all, let me say:

Now that that is out of the way:

So, today was going pretty great.
Went to uni used my notebook a whole lot.
Came home, turned it on and that's when the day went to shit because the motherfucking laptop thinks it's a good idea to tell me that there's no HDD connected.
Plus the HDD makes very strange noises which, I am sure, a HDD should not make (and this one has never made sounds like that before).
So, wouldn't be tragic. I don't really care for the HDD buy a new one and I'm good but the stuff that's on it.
It holds most of my uni notes and much of my uni related stuff in general.

So now I'm trying to get the freaking thing out of the notebook to, I dunno, try to attach it to my PC or something that might let me access some of the data on it but oh no, it's not as easy as that since Dell apparently has an affinity for really really tiny screws.
So no I gotta go to my nearest home depot equivalent and get a freaking screwdriver that actually fits.
And then I have t ofigure out how to connect it to my PC and _then_ I have to be really freaking lucky and hope at least some of my data is still accessible.
Fuckin great day, ain't it?

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Lathieza

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Posted: Tue, 29th Jun 2010 18:40 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

You can't plug it to your computer or it needs to be a SATA drive. If it isnt SATA you need a special converter to do the trick When a HDD is making strange noises and isnt recognised it's 80 percent sure you won't get any data back. What you can try when you have the HDD out is knocking it NOT TO HARD with the flat side on the table. Do this really gentle otherwise your anyway fucked. When the harddisk works after this method immidiatly start making a backup because the drive WILL fail again. Empty again

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todd72173

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Posted: Tue, 29th Jun 2010 20:39 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

You should be able to slide a switch to pull the HD, then insert HD in an external case and connect to a desktop. Atleast thats how my 10-YR old Compaq works and still runs great! Dell is one of the worst so does not suprise me. Sorry to hear that. RYZEN 5 2600\|RADEON 570\| \|ASRock X370 Killer\|DDR4@2800Mhz\|\|Corsair SPEC-05 Case\|AOC G2590FX 24.5''144hz 1ms\|

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tw1st

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Posted: Tue, 29th Jun 2010 21:37 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

you might also want to invest some money into an external backup drive to avoid something like this happening in the future (I learned the hard way when i lost 12GB of my music once), they are dirt cheap these days. \| BenQ XL2420T 24" 120Hz \| Ducky Shine III 9008 White LED - Brown MX \| Logitech G9x \| \| Corsair Carbide 400R \| Asus Sabertooth z77 \| i7 3770K @ 4.3Ghz - 1.200v \| CM Hyper 212 Evo - Push/Pull \| \| SLI eVGA 4GB GTX980 ACX SC \| Vengeance 16GB RAM 1600 DDR3 \| AX850w PSU \| Samsung 840Pro 128GB SSD \| WD Black 1TB HD \|

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WankStaiNuK

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Posted: Thu, 1st Jul 2010 18:15 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

hard drives are so unreliable. i only plug them in when i need them now, as lost way 2 much data!!

dingo_d
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Posted: Thu, 1st Jul 2010 18:28 Post subject:

Yep that happened to me with my 500 GB disk... I didn't care about music, films or shit like that, I lost 2 yrs of uni stuff... and there were a lot of stuff... I literally cried... and wanted to kill myself...

Anywho that taught me to make backups Very Happy

And now every two months or so I burn entire uni folder to DVD ^^

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