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    Notebook hard drive restore?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by daveob, Sep 12, 2007.

  1. daveob

    daveob Notebook Enthusiast

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    Any help on this would be well appreciated!

    I've just bought a sony SZ. Its sweet and now i won't be needing my built-like-a-brick-****-house but served me well acer tm740 which i shall now donate to my penniless student sister.

    However, my 80GB drive in my acer is knackered and has been for some time as i've no idea how to fix it. Its still got some stuff on it i don't want to lose.

    Windows won't boot - get to scrolling loader screen then BSOD.
    Scan disk recognises errors but refuses to fix them.
    Some basic boot disk i used told me the MBR and partition BS is corrupt but cat be fixed for some reason (cannot remember what).
    However, all my files are freely browsable, so i'm guessing intact.

    Any ideas or good bootable tools to use?
    I have a spare 20GB usb drive i could use to port stuff to my vaio before formatting the bugger. What can i use to do that?
    (BIOS doesn't support usb so i guess i'd need a boot disk with usb driver?)

    Cheers all!

    Dave.
     
    daveob, Sep 12, 2007
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  2. Jeff

    Jeff Notebook Retard

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    you could just take the hardrive out and connect it to your other laptop via usb.
     
    Jeff, Sep 12, 2007
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  3. daveob

    daveob Notebook Enthusiast

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    tried that. aparently my usb caddy won't work with a jippy drive. can just about get it to be recognised as a drive if i tick an option in the device manager but thats it.
     
    daveob, Sep 12, 2007
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    Sykotic Notebook Evangelist

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    You can get another usb caddy 2 try. GL
     
    Sykotic, Sep 12, 2007
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    daveob Notebook Enthusiast

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    Do jippy drives generally work with usb caddies then? I expected that they wouldn't becauses of the way the usb adapter works.
     
    daveob, Sep 13, 2007
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  6. Eleison

    Eleison Thanatos Eleison

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    What do you mean by "jippy" drive? Is that an Ultra ATA/100 or a SATA? As long as the HDD has a readable file system, there is some 2.5" enclosure somewhere that will support it.
     
    Eleison, Sep 13, 2007
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