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    Gateway P7805u HDD Failure?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by johnjohn86, Sep 11, 2013.

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    This morning to my laptop being turned off after I know I left it in hibernation. However upon turning it back on it was stuck at the Gateway loading window and didn't want to proceed. I tired to run the bios but it did not load to that screen either, only giving me a single "beeping" noise and nothing else. I let my battery drain to see if that would solve the problem and that didn't work either. Im assuming its a HDD issue becuase I removed the HDD and was able to load the bios screen successfully. but without a OS installed it did not want to load directly from HDD that was removed

    My only issue is that I do not have the recovery disk as they are acorss country. Does any one have any opinion on if this is the only issue that I may be experiencing?
     
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    It does sound like the HDD went belly up. As far as the OS disk's unfortunately only Gateway has them and will charge, that is if you can get the to do so also. Older systems like this they usually don't like to get involved with.
     
    TANWare, Sep 12, 2013
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    Not too sure about the legality of those but then again since vista OEM from the hdd's not too sure who will challenge them either. Even then those are the same disks that could have been created from the systems as originally supplied.
     
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    thanks everyone for the replies I got it working now! my next question is there anyway to retrieve the files from my old hard drive? I've tired 2 different methods; one I used the other empty HDD slot on the laptop and my laptop wouldnt load fully with it inside. So the other I purchased a HDD enclosure and my laptop still will not recognize it. any suggestions?
     
    johnjohn86, Sep 30, 2013
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    If the HDD mechanically dies out about the only way to recover the DATA is with a recovery service. These can be quite expensive and I believe there is no 100% guaranty. This is why we always need to backup data as often as possible.
     
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