On 2/12/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com> wrote:
The laptop used to work fine (no errors in the log files, no grinding noises). One fine day when it was moved from one place to another and then it stopped booting. The BIOS does not even recognize the hard drive. The hard drive does not spin. I believe that the problem could be a bad controller or a bad motor. So it needs to be taken into a clean room to get the data out.
I have a Toshiba laptop and my HDD one day produced a big noise. Then I no longer can boot it up. So I bought a new HDD but the next day I tried the old one again, it just worked as usual (only slower) and the noise went away. Maybe the HDD needs to take a day off. :)