Hard Drive Dead

[Mike The Yid]

One minute i'm browsing this site, the next i'm on blue screen, restarted comp, nothing no drive found. Insert repair disc, nothing to solve the problem. Press f2 on startup, the bios isn't seeing the HDD, so basically the drive is ****ed.

It's a laptop it's all I been using for like 2 years, got rid of the tower computer I had.

I'm just gonna accept defeat and buy another tower. This is the second laptop that has died on me, the first was the motherboard or something though I believe. I don't ever move them so its a joke, I had it just sat there plugged into a computer monitor via HDMI.

Anyone know any good sites to get a quality deal from?

[yid4eva]

will be cheaper to buy a new drive...maybe splash out on a solid state drive...will boost the speed like anything

This is where I bought my laptop from...legit and have a shop on Tottenham Court Road

http://www.askdirect.co.uk/basket/index.aspx

[Mike The Yid]

Another thing was the battery anyway, the battery was basically dead, no charge going to it at all. Don't know if I still have warranty, but i'm never buying anything HP again.

[gabrielconroy]

My advice if you're getting a tower is to build your own. I did with the one I'm using right now, and it cost around half the price it would have done if I'd bought it premade. I'd never done it before, and it was much easier than it might seem (basically the 'building' part involves plugging things in to the motherboard and whacking it in the case). You also get the advantage of knowing what's in there, and being able to replace or upgrade things should you ever want to.

[boo]

you might be able to save the data mate...

read this: Hard Drive Recovery

give us a shout if you need any help

[Mike The Yid]

My advice if you're getting a tower is to build your own. I did with the one I'm using right now, and it cost around half the price it would have done if I'd bought it premade. I'd never done it before, and it was much easier than it might seem (basically the 'building' part involves plugging things in to the motherboard and whacking it in the case). You also get the advantage of knowing what's in there, and being able to replace or upgrade things should you ever want to.

Yeah thats what i'd think of doing but I kinda have no idea what to buy and what goes with what. I studied computer science and I can definitely build one, a few years ago though but I recon I could still do it.

Just not to up to date on motherboards chipsets etc etc.

[Mike The Yid]

you might be able to save the data mate...

read this: Hard Drive Recovery

give us a shout if you need any help

Thanks for the suggestion, I was thinking about buying one of them adapters, I think I might have one somewhere in the house also, but I kinda don't think its worth the try, I think it's a mechanical failure.

[boo]

it sounds like the partition table has got lost, or scrambled, due to the automatic shut down of the system. i was streaming some video and some other stuff and the system crashed. the operating system would not boot. i put the drive in a caddy, windows took aboot 2 minutes to stop searching for the partition table. i ran the recovery software on the drive and recovered 100% of the data. twice lol

[Mike The Yid]

it sounds like the partition table has got lost, or scrambled, due to the automatic shut down of the system. i was streaming some video and some other stuff and the system crashed. the operating system would not boot. i put the drive in a caddy, windows took aboot 2 minutes to stop searching for the partition table. i ran the recovery software on the drive and recovered 100% of the data. twice lol

Ok so i'm gonna buy an external case then, do I need to know if its sata or ide specifically or not cause I wanna buy the case then just open up the laptop and try it, I can't remember what it was, probably SATA.

[boo]

you can get bi-drive caddy but i would recommend that you go for the one that matches your drive. when you take the drive out of the laptop, the sticker will tell you which one it is. i would have thought that if it is a quite new system, it will be a SATA

[Mike The Yid]

you can get bi-drive caddy but i would recommend that you go for the one that matches your drive. when you take the drive out of the laptop, the sticker will tell you which one it is. i would have thought that if it is a quite new system, it will be a SATA

Yeah it is a SATA as its only from 2009 I think it was bought and it was one of the top ones at the time, but honestly i'm gonna just buy a tower anyway.


Are Intels still on top of AMD? Which is the top intel processor these days, my neck pay checks spare cash is going on a PC.

[boo]

depends what you want to do with the system... mate, a lot has been said aboot upgrading to the latest car, t.v., p.c. in the case of the latter, most users wouldn't use half of the processing power of a single core CPU with a gig of ram under average computer usage. if you want to play games, you are looking at 2 cores minimum, 2 gig of ram with a 512 meg minimum on the gfx board.

[gabrielconroy]

Due to my budget I went for an AMD Phenom 965 quad core black edition, with compatible RAM and mobo - when configured probably between an i3 and an i5. I only need that, mind you, because I make music as well, and so need a fair bit of power for processing and running virtual instruments/effects.

The best chips around then (and now as far as I can tell) were the Intel i7s, but unless you're doing audio or video editing, or playing the latest games, you won't need nearly that much power. In any case, RAM is generally more important in those cases, and it's running pretty cheap at the moment. What's more significant is that it has an easy upgrade path - that you can just swap out the relevant bits in a couple of years or so, when you need it, without having to strip out the whole lot.

[Mike The Yid]

Well the one I had was dual core and ran at 2. something. I generally just had it hooked up to a monitor and rarely moved it. It has a hd out so I used to mostly play hd films I acquired . I did do a bit of gaming on it but it was shocking.

I think 600 would be my max initial investment

[boo]

Intel Core i7 870 Quad Core CPU 4 x 2.93ghz 32nm , Asus P7H55 Motherboard , 16GB Corsair DDR3 1600Mh , 2TB Hard Drive: £500 - Giz a shout if you want 1, my mate builds them in England.