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    E1505 Seagate hard drive died. Any fixes, options, advice?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Mysticales, Sep 7, 2007.

  1. Mysticales

    Mysticales Notebook Evangelist

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    Hey all, Laptop is about 15 months old. Still within the 3 yr coverage at least. The hard drive is a 80 GB Seagate. Which when we came back home, Windows ran slowly if at all... so on reboot, the PC errors with no bootable drive. Sure enough, BIOS etc doesnt recognize any hard drive attached to it.

    I took it out, cleaned the connectors, opened it up a lil, cleaned it out. Put back in, it came back with a error saying Disk error, reboot PC. Then back to the not seeing it again.

    I am not sure if its just totally gone or if something else could be the issue. I did test and put it in my other E1505 which also didnt see it, so that is why I am sure its just the hard drive with the issue.

    (Glad mine in my 1505 is a hitachi, lol)

    Anyways, going to call Dell tm to see whats up and so. Wondering if community had any thoughts into the matter or how i should address dell to it. We would love to recover the data at least... not sure if some pc services places could still do that.

    Anyways thanks to anyone with some insight. =)
     
    Mysticales, Sep 7, 2007
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  2. vostro1400user

    vostro1400user Notebook Deity

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    get a hitachi drive which tops reliability.
     
    vostro1400user, Sep 7, 2007
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    There are places that recover data off of defunct hard drives, but they're rather expensive.

    I don't know if something like Spin Rite would help recover the data.
    http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
     
    chelet, Sep 8, 2007
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  4. Mysticales

    Mysticales Notebook Evangelist

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    Yea I noticed on the Hitachi one.. thats the one my E1505 uses. The one that died is a Seagate... so like bleh on that one.. but glad mine isnt the same model.
     
    Mysticales, Sep 8, 2007
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    What did you do opening it up? Doesn't sound good to me...

    Call Dell you're under warranty... They will overnight a new HD to you... No need to waste your time posting here? We can't actually DO anything...
     
    frazell, Sep 8, 2007
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    Well I know for the most part nothing anyone can do, but just checking in case anyone heard of issues where if it turned out to be a connector causing issues or anything misc like that. But overnight would be nice.
     
    Mysticales, Sep 8, 2007
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