laptop hard drive is dying

[sephiroth786]

Recently i've been hearing a ton of clicking noises from my laptop hard drive accompanied by extreme periods of lag while browsing thru the C: drive contents in windows explorer and i have assumed that my hard drive is dying Well im planning on buying a new hard drive from newegg to replace it but i was wondering on how i would go about in backing up the contents of my laptop drive. Can i just connect the laptop hard drive with a normal IDE cable to my desktop and just ghost the data or do i need some sorta special cable converter to do this? And if so where can i purchase this cable/converter? thanks in advance.

 

[imported_FishTaco]

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD

 

[sephiroth786]

thanks a ton!

 

[filmore crashcart]

I recently experienced this on my Dell Inspiron 8200. Got a Seagate 40 gig 5400 rpm, Momentus and hooked the old drive up with an adapter to my desktop ide primary. The formatted new Seagate I hooked with an adapter to my cd primary cable. Booted with boot disk loaded with Norton Ghost and managed to transfer my system to the new drive - just barely. The old ibm hard drive was screeching and would periodically halt for a few moments before continuing. Once transferred, the old hard drive sounded like a rattle when you shook it.

 

[zephyrprime]

Don't buy that one from compgeeks! I bought that one and it never worked. Plus, Compgeeks' returns processing sucks. I bought one off ebay and it work and was of better build quality also!

 

[formulav8]

Compgeeks RMAing sucks bad. I am still fighting to get a refund. They want to only do a refund by a store credit. Like after their aweful service I am going to buy anything from them again?? Please. I want my money not nothing else from this company.


Jason