-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 01:44, Manu Hack wrote: > On 2/12/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The laptop used to work fine (no errors in the log files, no grinding >> noises). One fine day when it was moved from one place to another and >> then >> it stopped booting. The BIOS does not even recognize the hard drive. The >> hard drive does not spin. I believe that the problem could be a bad >> controller or a bad motor. So it needs to be taken into a clean room >> to get >> the data out. > > I have a Toshiba laptop and my HDD one day produced a big noise. Then > I no longer can boot it up. So I bought a new HDD but the next day I > tried the old one again, it just worked as usual (only slower) and the > noise went away. Maybe the HDD needs to take a day off. :)
Any kind of noise like that can't be good, though. Definitely time to get a new disk. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF0cNCS9HxQb37XmcRAqufAJ0X9JCNPg+pzXD8WJFVbPcGqDcqbACeKEuk tSm7EwghnxHR+wiJ1ZawMOM= =vxtZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
