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- From: buc5045@cuphub.cup.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: I think I crashed my hard drive.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.093908.105@cuphub.cup.edu>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 14:39:08 GMT
- References: <AeyIbSi00iV4E26yNc@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Organization: California University of Pennsylvania, California, PA
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- In article <AeyIbSi00iV4E26yNc@andrew.cmu.edu>, JoeKu+@CMU.EDU (Joseph Wei-Cheng Ku) writes:
- > hello.
- > Yesterday while I was typing away, I accidentally knock off the power
- > cable of my computer. It went off, wait a split second, then on. After
- > that, my hard drive hasn't been working at all. Now all it does is
- > making louder than usual clicking noises, and the LED doesn't light up.
- > Tried to boot up from a floppy and running all the disk diagnotic tools
- > I have, (norton, PCtools, chkdsk, etc...) , but the drive still only
- > give me a blank look (i.e., LED doesn't light up, disk still making
- > clicking noice) and all the test either says HDD adapter failure, or
- > just plainly stalls. I have removed the drive from my computer chasis
- > and tapped on it to see if anything was rattling inside, but couldn't
- > hear a thing.
- >
- > The question is, what should I do next? I could either bring it to a
- > repair shop and tried to get it fixed, or should I just buy a brand new
- > drive?
- > Or better yet, could you suggest a way to fix it? I don't have a clean
- > room, so I don't want to open it.
- >
- > help me? please?
- > -jk
- > The warranty expired a month ago (DAMN!).
-
-
- I am having somwhat similar problems. Check out the RE's to the question about
- problems with Microscience 7100-20 IDE 120MB HD.
-
- Elsetime,
-
- Lord Dread
-
- "Some people say that life is an illusion and that reality is a figment of the
- immagination." - the commentator in RHPS
- If this is true then who the hell is dreaming this mess?
-