Laptop hard drive..dead?

[Robert Allen]

Hi,

I did a hard drive test in bios. Failed after 70%. Is my laptop hard drive dead?

My laptop wont go past the boot screen.

ROb

 

[networkmsia]

can't even reformat ?

If can reformat, choose the NTFS long format, If it get stucks halfway while reformating then your hardrive is gone :P

 

[Robert Allen]

I havnt tryed a reformat.

Rob

 

[Barrucadu]

My laptop's harddrive is slowly dying, luckily I keep all my files/programs on my portable harddrive.

Let this be a lesson to you, Always Backup Data (if you don't already).

 

[networkmsia]

My laptop wont go past the boot screen.

this could be because your windows became corrupted, could be due to virus, spyware etc. or perhaps you messed up the Master boot record
happened to me once too.

Hope reformatting solves the problem

good luck Robert

 

[Robert Allen]

this could be because your windows became corrupted, could be due to virus, spyware etc. or perhaps you messed up the Master boot record
happened to me once too.

Hope reformatting solves the problem

good luck Robert

Yes, but the bios hard drive test failed at 70-ish%.

Rob

 

[tm]

Stick it in another machine and see if you can browse it... if you can do that with laptop drives.

 

[Robert Allen]

Stick it in another machine and see if you can browse it... if you can do that with laptop drives.

I dont think it will work. I dont have the correct IDE device.

Rob

 

[tm]

What do you mean, don't have the correct IDE device? The hard drive is the IDE device. You should be able to find a free IDE connection on one of the cables inside your other computer.

 

[Robert Allen]

Would taking my laptop apart null my warrenty?

Rob

 

[swimjenni]

Would taking my laptop apart null my warrenty?

Rob

Most likely. If it is underwarrenty have them fix it and try and recover your files.

 

[Robert Allen]

I have extented warrenty. It was supposed to be 1 year, but i paid an extra £250 for 2 more years.

ROb

 

[tm]

Well what are you waiting for? :p Give them a call and get them to fix it!