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Hard Drive Failure
"If the former, then can you not replug the old hard drive and copy off the wanted files?" That's what I'm curious about: If I put the failing hard-drive in the second hard-drive slot temporarily to retrieve the files saved on, or I guess in my AOL saved mail/folders (which is not on a remote...- emileeaw
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive Failure
I'm sorry for my vague discription. It's been a very frustrating week, to say the least! Anyway, my hard-drive was headed towards failure. My laptop all of the sudden froze one evening. I was able to do a hard re-boot, but when Windows started up normally, it took forever for the computer to...- emileeaw
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- Forum: PC hardware - Hard drive issues
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Hard Drive Failure
My SATA hard drive failed last week in my fairly new Dell Inspiron 1720. I called Dell, they sent a new hard drive, and I installed it on Friday. I just realized that there are some files that I forgot to copy from my old hard drive before I send it back to Dell. My question is: can I re-install...- emileeaw
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