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| Thread ID: 109724 | 2010-05-20 10:15:00 | Dead Dell Latitude D610 | johcar (6283) | Press F1 |
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| 886657 | 2010-05-20 10:15:00 | (I know - a dead Dell is the best kind - and not that uncommon...) A mate's daughter was given this Dell a month or so ago - she has 5 school assignments on it and when she went to fire it up today, got the Dell Splash screen then "A disk read error has occurred. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart" Doing this loops through the same process again. I have removed the HDD (an 80GB Western Digital) and popped it into one of my enclosures and then plugged it into my laptop to see if I can rescue any data. But when I try to access it I get a message "The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable". My assumption here is that the drive is now no more than a cheap paperweight, but could someone please confirm this? Is there any other way to access the drive? Looks like I can get into the BIOS... |
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| 886658 | 2010-05-20 11:33:00 | Try the WD diag tools? See what that brings up. What version of windows is on it?? Try a linux cd see how far it gets | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 886659 | 2010-05-20 11:47:00 | Ran the WD test suite - everything passed except the HDD. Will have a look around for my Linux CD. |
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| 886660 | 2010-05-21 07:20:00 | Booted the Dell up on a Ubuntu USB version. Looks like the HDD is a dead duck: "Unable to mount 80 GB Filesystem". My mate's daughter now has a very busy weekend trying to recreate those 5 assignments. Probably not a bad lesson to learn though: backup, backup, backup!!! |
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