Re: HD problems
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:26:50AM +0000, Zach wrote:
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> both cannot be read. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this
> happening before (the HD is god but cannot be read due to fault in the
> system's hardware)? I hope whatever is wrong didn't damage the data on
yes, chipset/controllers/power-supply can fail just like any other hw.
On the data-loss side, depends on the kind of failure. Your's sounds like
a failure on the 'power' side, so perhaps the HD could not get enough
power to do the right - and then hopely nor the wrong - things.
> Do you know something I could buy that would connect to my small
> laptop hard drive and allow me to mount it as an external hard disk? I
look for pcmcia adapters - check if your nb can boot from a pccard drive,
but that's not essential as long as your nb have a CDD (does it have it?).
On a very old 586 nb I could manage to boot from an external HDD which
replaced the CDD of the external PCMCIA kit.
Of course, YMMV (a lot).
--
paolo
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