hard drive issues, please help ?!

[/Thom\]

ok, so i the problem started this morning when i turned on the mrs's laptop, saying that there was no boot device.

I checked bios and the drive is not being recognised, reset the cmos etc without any luck so i decided to take the drive out and plug it into my pc. once plugged into my pc the drive isn't being recognised but at the same time isn't not being recognised, bios doesn't say that there isn't anything attached but it also can't seem to work out that there drive is connected.

anyone have any idea what i can do? the worst part is she has her uni work on there that needs to be printed and handed in very soon!

cheers guys

 

[square_nothing]

ok, so i the problem started this morning when i turned on the mrs's laptop, saying that there was no boot device.

I checked bios and the drive is not being recognised, reset the cmos etc without any luck so i decided to take the drive out and plug it into my pc. once plugged into my pc the drive isn't being recognised but at the same time isn't not being recognised, bios doesn't say that there isn't anything attached but it also can't seem to work out that there drive is connected.

anyone have any idea what i can do? the worst part is she has her uni work on there that needs to be printed and handed in very soon!

cheers guys

i think a certain large pc store do a hard drive recovery at a cost.
i am guessing you will need a new hard drive but i think you will be able to recover the data.
best of luck!

 

[/Thom\]

My parents used that service a few years ago, cost way to much money.

the thing i dont understand is how its then but it's not in bios, there has to be a way of accessing the drive somehow....

 

[square_nothing]

i dont think i can offer anymore advise past this point so i wont.
do you have any backups? and if so i hope they are newish.
if not lesson learned, backup your data, have it in 3 places at one time to be sure.
my girlfriend did this 2 times before learning.

 

[area51]

Hi if you're still stuck drop me a mail damuttsnuts(delete this bit)hot mail com. ive a friend thats the bizz with recoveries. hes in london woodford area you can swap numbers and go from there.

 

[YoungOzzy]

If your skilled enough take the hard drive out and use a sata/IDE to USB covreter and then pop the usb end inot your computer and use 'driveimagexml' and select the backup option then click the laptop hard drive and then when the new windo comes up to where you want your destination point to an external or something, and deselect 'split large files'. this will create a imamgae of the whole harddrive. Now, if you want to look at everything and take folers out, reopen the software and go to 'read or something second from bottom and go to where you pointed it to save and then click the 'xml' file and it will open then browse .

Hope this helps and you understand and 'use'.