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  1. Estame6

    Flash Blue Screen

    Correction: It is the smaller 44 pin that connects to the laptop hard drive. Is similar in appearence to the other end that connects to the motherboard. Both being the block type female connectors. The ad read that it connects 44 pin slim notebook hard drives to and standard motherboard, which...
  2. Estame6

    Flash Blue Screen

    Thanks, I ordered a 44 pin to 40 pin cable and when it arrived found out that the 40 pin is a female connector. The hard drive has what it seems to be a 40 pin row of bayonet type connectors. Is there another adaptor I need or is it just the wrong type of connector. Should I have ordered a...
  3. Estame6

    Flash Blue Screen

    Many thanks for those suggestions, I connected my bad hard drive to another computer as a slave and was able to access the files and burn them to a cd. I guess I was lucky with this one, backing up my working data will be a weekly task from now on. I have had this laptop hard drive that did a...
  4. Estame6

    Flash Blue Screen

    Thanks, Excellent suggestion. I mentioned I had tried that feature, it worked perfectly on another computer about a year ago. But with this one, it can't regognize the c: drive so when you get the screen that offers the Repair, it only mentions that it sees an unformatted hard drive and wants...
  5. Estame6

    Flash Blue Screen

    ASUS/GE 1.8M 524M 40Ghd XP Pro SP2 Worked perectly for two years. Basic eMail, Family Pictures, Tunes etc. Switching on goes through the bios set up and now tells me its been switched off incorreclty and asks me to either start windows normally, safe mode, last known etc. Selecting start...

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