Trying to trouble shoot hard drive - It be not working

[saidblade]

I have a laptop that when it boots it goes to the XP load screen for about 2 seconds and then a blue screen of love.

I ran a linux boot disk to try to trouble shoot it but we couldn't get it to see the drive.

I bought a sata 2.5 drive enclosure and hooked it up to my other computer with the laptop drive in it and it can't see it. The drive gets warm but thats all.

I pulled my other laptop drive out and put it into the drive enclosure and it worked fine.

What can I do?
What options do I have to see if this is still a good drive?
Does this mean the drive is dead?
Do I need to load drivers?
Can I force mount it?

Any thoughts???

WD 2.5 sata drive 60gig. Compact laptop. About two years old.

 

[edfair]

Your symptoms are of a dead drive. Since it is getting warm it probably is getting the motor current as that is generally the major heat generator.

If the drive is dead you are seeing a BIOS splash screen.



Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[wolluf]

download the drive manufacturer's diagnostic, and run it with the drive back in the laptop (should run from CD, as laptop probably has no floppy).

If you are getting XP startup at all, the drive may not be dead (but probably is dead/dying) - but the diagnostic should tell you (and if its not terminal, it may be able to fix the problem).

If diagnostic shows ok, you may need to run chkdsk on the drive to repair the filestore structure.

 

[vacunita]

I bought a sata 2.5 drive enclosure and hooked it up to my other computer with the laptop drive in it and it can't see it. The drive gets warm but thats all.

Did you look In Drive Management to see if its there? If it has some kind of partition corruption it may not show up in explorer but still show up in disk Management. Right Click On My Computer -> Manage-> Storage-> Disk Managment.





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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[goombawaho]

1. Check in BIOS to see if the drive is showing up there at all. If not, it looks mighty grim.

2. What Wolluf said - manuf diag utility. If that doesn't see it and you're sure you've got it jumpered right (oops SATA - never mind). The drive is dead Jim.

3. Start crying and wish you had a good backup

4. Spend ~ $500 to get data restored if really critical.

http://www.gillware.com

is one source

5. Cry a little more if you spend that kind of money.

Sorry bro - bad luck.

 

[deenap]

yip it sounds like a dying HDD