[CTS] Re: Hardrive Problem?

  • From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhb57@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:18:11 -0500

If it's quiet like you say then the motor or heads of the drive are locked
and unless you backed up you might be SOL. You're running SCSI on a home PC?


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> [mailto:computertalkshop-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Elaine Gairy
> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 8:42 AM
> To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [CTS] Hardrive Problem?
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> Yesterday my hard driving starting making this constant click . .
> . click . . . click noise.  The screen froze so I did an
> Alt/Ctrl/Delete and I got the dreaded blue screen with a load of
> stuff on it.  I wrote it down but am not at home so can't share
> it now.  I shut the computer down by holding down the power
> button.  When I re-booted things were very quiet and eventually I
> got a black screen with the message "Operating System Not Found".
>  I've tried a boot disk and the recover disk from HP and it seems
> it's not getting to my hard drive.  Does anyone have an idea on
> this.  Does it sound like a hard drive problem or a SCSI Card
> maybe?  I'm sick that I might have lost everything on my hard
> drive.  Thanks, Elaine
>
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