Laptop hard drive failed.advice

spike7451

Earlier today I got the blue screen of death on my Dell Inspiron lappy,when I rebooted,I kept getting a '?????img unable to boot' (or something like that) error message.
I was able to remove the old SATA drive from an old laptop & format it to replace the one that crashed,although it's wayyyy smaller (17Gig) so it's not the lappy.
Reading online,apparently,Fujitsu SATA drives have this problem,an I read it is possible to recover the data from the drive.
Question is how??


Secondly,I now have the US keyboard where the " is now the @ & visa versa.How can I swap it back?

It's a Dell inspiron.

Thanks in advance.

ps,I did call the number for the helpline that came with the laptop,got thru to India to a bloke who said it was the H/Drive & motherboard..he was talking sho1te!!

stilltheone

You can buy a caddy for £3.12 here and together with the HDD, use it an external HDD. Just because you were unable to boot doesn't mean that the HDD is kaput. Did you run Diagnostics or a Recovery Disc?

Either way, buy the caddy. If it works, back up your data and put the drive back in to the DELL...and then post again.

spike7451

stilltheone wrote: »

You can buy a caddy for around £4 and use it an external HDD. Just because you were unable to boot doesn't mean that the HDD is kaput. Did you run Diagnostics or a Recovery Disc?

Either way, buy the caddy. If it works, back up your data and put the drive back in to the DELL...and then post again.

I tried running the disc with the Fujitsu one but it wouldn't.The lappy's working OK with the drive I got from the old laptop.
The diagnostics gave me an error message & were unable to continue,Eeejit here forgot to writhe it down tho.Thanks for the advise.:D

stilltheone

Have provided a link for a caddy in post #2.

Once in the caddy you can run ChkDsk too.

CoolHotCold

Start -- > Control Pannel --> Region And Language --> Keyboards & Languages

Then Select from the drop down the UK keyboard and set that as default and delete the US one (you might have to delete the US keyboard twice)

vax2002

If Windows can not read it from a cady, you can put it back in the machine , burn linux puppy to Cd and run it from the Cd as a boot sector it can find common file types and copy them on to a memory stick, such as jpeg images and document files.