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entwisi · 18-05-2008, 20:00

If it was powered up when dropped it probably means teh Hard disk is knackered. they are quite resilient when powered down but when actually running all hard disks are fragile as eggs.

you can check teh rest of teh laptop is OK by using a live CD from teh likes of UBUNTU. download teh disk and burn it or if your local and can pick up a disk I'll make one for you.

If teh rest of teh lappy is OK then a new disk is anyting from about £40 upwards. you would of course need to reinstall everything but I 'might' be able to save data thats on it if you haven't backed it up. PS I have yet to see a local computer shop(or PC World fopr that matter) that have any idea on data recovery so please don't trust what they say if there is anything of value on that disk.

18-05-2008, 20:00	#5
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: laptop help If it was powered up when dropped it probably means teh Hard disk is knackered. they are quite resilient when powered down but when actually running all hard disks are fragile as eggs. you can check teh rest of teh laptop is OK by using a live CD from teh likes of UBUNTU. download teh disk and burn it or if your local and can pick up a disk I'll make one for you. If teh rest of teh lappy is OK then a new disk is anyting from about £40 upwards. you would of course need to reinstall everything but I 'might' be able to save data thats on it if you haven't backed it up. PS I have yet to see a local computer shop(or PC World fopr that matter) that have any idea on data recovery so please don't trust what they say if there is anything of value on that disk. __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?