ticking laptop

calleyw

Over the last few days I have been having a recurring problem. My laptop starts to tick very loud for about 30 seconds. Now the hard disk light is active not sure if it is because of the ticking or that it ticks because of the access to the hard drive form what ever I am doing.

It it random when it does it about once a day. The first time or two it did it caused a blue screen of death and said something about kernel. Re-boot and then was fine.

Yesterday when I had to re-boot it came up with some very random character before it got to the windows screen and then hung.

I have scanned the hard disk for errors told them to fix them if found but did not seem to find any.

Personally I think it is the hard drive which is going to cost money as it is a latop.

Any other ideas.

Yours

Calley

calleyw

Don't worry found the answer now my hard drive has now failed.

Tried to re-install windows and told me it can't find the hard drive.

So now need to go and buy a new hard drive.


Just what I need to have to spend money I don't have. Ho hum.


Yours

Calley

ian99_2

you tried fdisk

catch22

That clicking noise is scary. Happened to my laptop and it was the hard drive unfortunately. The person who installed my new hard drive split it into two and therefore by using Ghost all information will not be lost again, thankfully.

calleyw

catch22 wrote:

That clicking noise is scary. Happened to my laptop and it was the hard drive unfortunately.

I know. Had a bright idea to take out the hard drive and bung in it my desktop as a secondary to see if I get some info off. No luck as all the fittings are smaller.

I have not found ian99 comment helpful. "You tried Fdisk" Pray tell how do I run it when I am using win XP as XP does not have fdisk in it

I have tried to re-install direct from the XP disks as that formats and reininstalls. But it can't find the hard disk. Tried with another XP disk to repair and that can't find the hard disk.

I have tried to use 98 boot disks and that is no help. I have tried to download fdisk but to no avail.

I do think the hard disk is knacked. Fling it against the wall and it will be.

I have managed to find a new hard drive for about £45 I can fit it myself so that will save me loads. And I will do weekly backups.

Yours

Calley

basill

you can get an adaptor to plug a laptop HDD into your desktop PC for backup, data retrieval purposes

Heres one at Maplin

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=28724&doy=8m8&C=SEO&U=Template

Basill

DilbertJones

catch22 wrote:

That clicking noise is scary. Happened to my laptop and it was the hard drive unfortunately. The person who installed my new hard drive split it into two and therefore by using Ghost all information will not be lost again, thankfully.

Not strictly speaking true, if the hard drive fails physically, then you will still risk losing everything if you dont make backups to external media

calleyw

Basill,

You a star. You have saved me a massive headache looking for one of those.


Thank you very much.


Yours

Calley

calleyw

Had a look but that cable is no good as I can't seem to boot from the laptop drive and it connects direct to the mother board.

I need one with two standard connections and one for a 2.5 laptop as it will need to be secondary hard drive. But I have no jumper anyway as it is smaller than a standard one.

Thanks.

Never mind.


Yours

Calley

basill

calleyw wrote:

Had a look but that cable is no good as I can't seem to boot from the laptop drive and it connects direct to the mother board.

You dont need to boot from the laptop drive, I would use the converter cable to connect the laptop drive to the secondary IDE socket on your desktop motherboard, in place of your cdrom. Then strart the PC as normal. If the laptop drive has any life left in it it will appear as drive d: and if your lucky you can copy your files to the c: drive


laptop drives sometimes have a intermediate connector between them and the laptop motherboard when this is removed the laptop drive has a suitable connector for the maplin cable.

Best of luck,,

Basill

catch22

robodan wrote:

Not strictly speaking true, if the hard drive fails physically, then you will still risk losing everything if you dont make backups to external media

But he split it into two drives?