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post #1 of 5
3/23/06 at 5:39pm
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I bought the m6809 back in July of '04 and my HD just died yesterday. I turn on my notebook and it makes the clicking noise and says "operating system not found". Does anyone know why this might have happened? Less that two years seems a tad short to me for a HD to go. I bought the computer because my grad school "required" a laptop only to find it was more of a desktop than laptop for me never leaving my desk at home. I plan to replace the HD but want to make sure I don't ruin another.

Also, is there any way I can get what was on the HD off and about how much does that sort of thing cost. Also, I was going to replace the HD but wasn't sure what to get. What is better about the Hitatchi 100GB drives (7200 & 5400) vs the orignal 80GB one that was in my notebook?

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post #2 of 5
3/23/06 at 10:35pm
2 years is actually not unheard of for a laptop HDD. If the HDD had a catastrophic mechanical failure, then you won't be able to recover any data yourself. There are some companies that will do data recovery if the platters are still OK, but it is VERY expensive.
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post #3 of 5
3/24/06 at 1:52am
You might want to try the freezer trick. Basically you toss your hard drive in your freezer for awhile and then boot it up. Sometimes it can save the hard drive long enough for you to get your data off of it. For example:

http://www.meetmyattorney.com/slink/...es/000275.html

Get yourself an external backup hard drive ASAP and start backing up your files on a regular basis; don't forget to use Ghost:

http://restore.wiredby.com

You can build your own external hard drive for really cheap now; an external enclosure costs about $50 and an 80gb hard drive costs about $50, so you're looking at $100 for a nice-sized backup drive. You can also snag a 250gb drive for about double the price ($100); $150 for a ton of space is still a pretty good deal. Good luck, let us know how it turns out!
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post #4 of 5
3/24/06 at 6:31pm
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Thanks for the links, I will give that a try. I just bought a new HDD identical to the original one (Hitatchi Travelstar (80GN) 80GB) for about $80 after shipping. I think I am going to set it up and sell the laptop. The laptop is great but I really want to get a smaller one for school and then a desktop for gaming.
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post #5 of 5
4/15/06 at 3:24pm
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Originally Posted by spltend
I bought the m6809 back in July of '04 and my HD just died yesterday. I turn on my notebook and it makes the clicking noise and says "operating system not found". Does anyone know why this might have happened? Less that two years seems a tad short to me for a HD to go. I bought the computer because my grad school "required" a laptop only to find it was more of a desktop than laptop for me never leaving my desk at home. I plan to replace the HD but want to make sure I don't ruin another.

Also, is there any way I can get what was on the HD off and about how much does that sort of thing cost. Also, I was going to replace the HD but wasn't sure what to get. What is better about the Hitatchi 100GB drives (7200 & 5400) vs the orignal 80GB one that was in my notebook?

thanks
Bad power source is a common issue for drives and boards to go bad- not your converter, but the AC from the wall socket. I always recommend people use UPS- although it's difficult to train yourself with a laptop to only plug it into the UPS. Even though I've got 2 in the house, here I am in the back bedroom plugged into a plain-ol powerstrip. Bad me-
If you weren't able to get data off the drive the freezer way, there's these IDE converter type connectors that basically hooks a 40-pin interface up to your laptop's 44 pins, skipping the 4 that decide Master/Slave, so that you can slave it into a desktop and hopefully your desktop's bios and Master drive can see it. Sometimes this works alot easier than trying to use it as your boot drive with the O.S. and then maybe you can pull data from it that way.
You can find them on ebay.
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