Laptop Hardware help!

Safc 4 Ever · 30th June 2011, 11:57 AM

I'm guessing my hard drive has completely died as BIOS still loads but it goes no further with a clicking noise around where the hard drive is,

Is this an expensive repair?
And my windows 7 was installed onto there by the upgrade but i have no copy of the license key etc etc

What should i do, apart from format the fucker, as i wish i could.

Dangly Ham · 30th June 2011, 11:58 AM

Won't matter if you format it, the drive is physically fucked.

Buy a new one off ebay.

houst69 · 30th June 2011, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Safc 4 Ever

I'm guessing my hard drive has completely died as BIOS still loads but it goes no further with a clicking noise around where the hard drive is,

Is this an expensive repair?
And my windows 7 was installed onto there by the upgrade but i have no copy of the license key etc etc

What should i do, apart from format the fucker, as i wish i could.

Sounds like your HDD is fucked, hope you backed your contents up, licence key should be on the underside of laptop

dirty bristow · 30th June 2011, 11:59 AM

My 250 hard drive cost £30 for a replacement.

Heeeed the Ball · 30th June 2011, 12:02 PM

Dont format the fucker

Dangly Ham · 30th June 2011, 12:03 PM

If there are important things on the drive then there are ways to recover them but you'll pay in excess of £700 for the privilege.

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/

Safc 4 Ever · 30th June 2011, 12:04 PM

Probably don't ever want anyone to see what was on it

Dangly Ham · 30th June 2011, 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Safc 4 Ever

Probably don't ever want anyone to see what was on it

Oh well.

But aye - Falcon computers on roker avenue should be able to fit you up with a drive with an operating system on it. I'd take that route.

Safc 4 Ever · 30th June 2011, 12:23 PM

Another question for the smarties, are hard drives different shapes and sizes, or could i ust buy any SATA hdd and it will fit inside my laptop?

adesafc · 30th June 2011, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Dangly Ham

If there are important things on the drive then there are ways to recover them but you'll pay in excess of £700 for the privilege.

http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/

Do not use any online bollox like that, it is usually a scam. Just google it and you find plenty on this type of scam. If you aren't really bothered whats on it just destroy it completely. I downloaded data recovery off the torrent sites and it recivered it completely free

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Originally Posted by Safc 4 Ever

Another question for the smarties, are hard drives different shapes and sizes, or could i ust buy any SATA hdd and it will fit inside my laptop?

You will need 2.5" drive. You will need to check if it is SATA though, search your laptop model on google or just take it out and look on the drive, failing that just take the drive to a shop