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Stielund

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July 28th, 2003 16:00

Primary hard disk drive 0 failure

Hi,

When I boot my Latitude, it beeps twice and says Primary hard disk drive 0 failure. No boot device available. strike f1 to reboot f2 for setup.

When I then pull the hard drive out and put it back in, everything was ok. But only for a couple of days. Now it constantly give me that respons.

Does any of you have any good solution, I would be very happy.

 

Best regards

Karsten Stielund 

mctrojan23

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February 7th, 2004 03:00

I have just encountered the issue mentioned in this thread.  I know the HD is toast and that I have to get a new one (any suggestions?).  However, this is my wife's computer, and she has never backed up her data (imagine that!).  What is the easiest way to try and recover the data?

 

Thanks.

MnWIld

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February 7th, 2004 08:00

Ok, mctrojan23, i do not think that is posible if the HD is fried that means you probably lost everything on it i do not know i could be wrong so take it up with someone else that might have a better knoledge than me, On the other hand about my problem,  Ok the computer crashed awhile back, well my friend didnt care if i took the hard drives out of it so i did then i reformatted them, then he gave me the computer now i am trying to put the hard drives in so i can get it up and running again so no i am not trying ti install XP i am trying to fix it i know it did have xp on it....So i thank you guys for your time and responding and if you could help me out somemore on how to get it working again Danmattson that  would be great, give me a email if you need any information regarding the computer at Emin3m1@aol.com, So whatever you have to say i will take it into consideration and try it out, Thanks...

DanMattson

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February 9th, 2004 18:00

mctrojan23-  There are software and hardware utilities out there for recovering of data on an even un-bootable hard drive.  Some computers come with software for that purpose as part of a system restore package,  but the best ones out there are expensive and generally only used by people that work in IT or build\repair computers.  It took 4 days of continuous processing, but our HQ office managed to recover the half dozen or so critical business files off a laptop hard drive that failed a couple weeks ago.  I won't get into the details as they won't help you, but basically the data may actually be recoverable, but you probably can't do it (as you don't have the equipment) and its probably not worth your time to try and pay someone else to try and get the data off.

MnWIld- I'll be in touch.

Best of luck to everyone.

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