Laptop HDD failure

Grinderwald · 22nd June 2006, 5:15 PM

I have an older laptop (About 2 years old)

It's a Packard Bell.
The hard drive has slowly been dying and getting slower and slower.
I had a heap of stuff on there that I really wanted to get off it.

Right now it wont even get past the windows logon screen. When I listen to the hard drive instead of the normal reading the data noise I can just here dut... pause dut... pause dut... sometimes it will get two dut dut's in but not often, sounds like it has a few problems.

It used to boot up pretty fast but now after 7-10 mins of boot up it just hangs. The winxp disk integrity checker comes up but I skip it because that spends hours telling me about unreadable & damaged parts of the disk.

I was wondering if there was an easy way of getting the data off?

The computer is getting old so I wasn't going to go to the trouble of getting a computer shop to look at it. Or would I have to take it in to them to get the data off anyway?

Cheers.

Varuna · 22nd June 2006, 5:22 PM

Put it on a USB controller (external case or just a cable) and try to pull the data to another drive.

If you have problems, you may have to look at using Get Data Back.

SLATYE · 22nd June 2006, 5:23 PM

It's not hard to get the data off it. Just remove the HDD (normally there's only a couple of screws to get it out) and buy a ~$20 adaptor to plug it into a normal PATA/IDE cable. Then you can put it in your main (desktop) system as a secondary HDD and copy everything to another drive.

Grinderwald · 22nd June 2006, 7:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SLATYE

It's not hard to get the data off it. Just remove the HDD (normally there's only a couple of screws to get it out) and buy a ~$20 adaptor to plug it into a normal PATA/IDE cable. Then you can put it in your main (desktop) system as a secondary HDD and copy everything to another drive.

That is exactly what I was hoping I could do.
Thanks both for your help.

delpieropadova · 23rd June 2006, 12:32 PM

How about using Spinrite 6 on it too (gibson research's program).

tin · 25th June 2006, 8:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by delpieropadova

How about using Spinrite 6 on it too (gibson research's program).

Because it's a rip...
Sorry, I just dont like GRC.

22nd June 2006, 5:15 PM	#1
Grinderwald Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Port Macquarie Posts: 31	Laptop HDD failure I have an older laptop (About 2 years old) It's a Packard Bell. The hard drive has slowly been dying and getting slower and slower. I had a heap of stuff on there that I really wanted to get off it. Right now it wont even get past the windows logon screen. When I listen to the hard drive instead of the normal reading the data noise I can just here dut... pause dut... pause dut... sometimes it will get two dut dut's in but not often, sounds like it has a few problems. It used to boot up pretty fast but now after 7-10 mins of boot up it just hangs. The winxp disk integrity checker comes up but I skip it because that spends hours telling me about unreadable & damaged parts of the disk. I was wondering if there was an easy way of getting the data off? The computer is getting old so I wasn't going to go to the trouble of getting a computer shop to look at it. Or would I have to take it in to them to get the data off anyway? Cheers.

22nd June 2006, 5:22 PM	#2
Varuna Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sydneys Northern Beaches. Posts: 1,050	Put it on a USB controller (external case or just a cable) and try to pull the data to another drive. If you have problems, you may have to look at using Get Data Back. __________________ If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

22nd June 2006, 5:23 PM	#3
SLATYE SLATYE, not SLAYTE Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Canberra Posts: 21,038	It's not hard to get the data off it. Just remove the HDD (normally there's only a couple of screws to get it out) and buy a ~$20 adaptor to plug it into a normal PATA/IDE cable. Then you can put it in your main (desktop) system as a secondary HDD and copy everything to another drive. __________________ Main system: Pentium-D 805 \| 1GB (2x 512MB) PQI DDR400 \| Gigabyte 8I865GMK-775 \| Xtreama Radeon 9800Pro with Zalman ZM-80HP-D \| 320GB WD SATA HDD \| Antec SmartPower 2.0 500w Laptop: Compal EL80 \| C2D T7200 \| 320GB Fujistu HDD \| 2GB DDR2-667 \| GF Go 7600

23rd June 2006, 12:32 PM	#5
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