Resurrected lappy HDD...

[Beller0ph1]

I have a 1.5 year old Dell Inspiron 9300 lappy with a Samsung hard drive. Windows wouldn't boot a few weeks ago because of an "Unmountable Boot Volume" warning. I tried a bunch of things, but eventually an old WinXP full install disk got it up and running after a CHKDSK.

So, should I look into getting a new drive, or should I be alright with this current one? If I need a new one, what's the easiest way to get the data from the old to the new?

 

[jordanpr]

If you are just transferring videos/music/etc, then borrow a friends external and just put it on that and then transfer it back to the new hard drive.

 

[hardbench]

Most of the time the problem that chkdsk repairs has to do with the file system and is not a physical hard drive problem.