Recent content by air4cedude

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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    I plugged it in yesterday to try something and it did something different this time. Before the windows logo came up it gave me a message saying my hal.dll file in the system32 folder was missing or corrupt <windowsroot>\system32\hal.dll When I unplug it and boot the computer normally...
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    So far I've tried: 1. reconnecting all the cables 2. new cable 3. let windows run overnight I created a UBCD disk. What tools should I try out? Thanks for everyone's help!
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    I ran it and no errors on the OS drive.
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    Yes
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    One thing I didn't mention is that after the windows logo appears I can hear one pretty loud single click coming from the hard drive. What is that? A bunch of clicks I'm sure is really bad but a single click sound just as bad?
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    Something like this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16817193055 Or this? http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16812104062
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    The longest I've let it sit is about 10-20 minutes. I just tried connecting it after windows booted up normally and the computer is super slow and explorer doesn't show the drive.
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    It would be a pretty big coincidence if it wasn't caused by her because immediately it started giving me errors about data may be lost. I immediately rebooted and windows was able to get to the desktop but the quick launch and syetem tray wouldn't come up so I rebooted again and it froze after...
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    Is there any data recovery software out there that i can boot from a floppy or cd and try it that way?
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    Why won't the computer boot up if it doesn't have an OS on it?
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    I burned the diagnostic tool to a cd and booted it from the cd.
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    No, it instructed me to call WD Tech support. They said to try a new cable but I'm fairly sure that's not the problem. Apparently it's still under warrantty but I'd like to do whatever it takes to either fix it or recover as many files as I can.
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    I can't get to windows with it connected. After the windows logo it freezes up with the hard drive light blinking continuously. Can I disconnect it and then reconnect it once i have windows up and running?
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    Is My Hard Drive Dead?

    Hi guys, I have a Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB SATA Model - WD5000KS It is for storage only so I don't have an OS on it. Computer won't boot up when it's connected. I ran the WD Diagnostic and it said there was a Smart error. A couple of things in the report that were...