Lost my hard drive in my laptop, no warning, no issues, just locked up using firefox.rebooted and got an error code 140-2000 I think it was. Can't get laptop to boot with recovery disk(or with a linux CD) when hard drive is in laptop. Take the hard drive out and it will boot. Any ideas how I can get my pics off the old drive. Anyone ever use one of those recovery services?
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Originally posted by walrus View PostLost my hard drive in my laptop, no warning, no issues, just locked up using firefox.rebooted and got an error code 140-2000 I think it was. Can't get laptop to boot with recovery disk(or with a linux CD) when hard drive is in laptop. Take the hard drive out and it will boot. Any ideas how I can get my pics off the old drive. Anyone ever use one of those recovery services?
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Originally posted by Ralph Baer View Postif it is only the boot sector that is bad, you could put the hard drive in a case and use it as an external hard drive with another computer.I swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell.
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Which is why I have Carbonite. It won't backup the exe files, but the data files are fine.
Sounds like the FAT is gone (if they still use that thing). If you want to spend some $$, a recovery service can extract the stuff.
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after you get out of this mess (good luck!) make sure you do something for backups! I do backups on an external drive and an online service (backblaze, $5 per month unlimited amount of data)
In my experience hard drives fail more often than any other computer component. In my work-provided laptop I have a 512GB solid state drive, which is a more reliable than a traditional spinning disk and is super fast, but it is also super expensive (over $1000 for the disk drive).
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Originally posted by BassAle View PostIn my experience hard drives fail more often than any other computer component. In my work-provided laptop I have a 512GB solid state drive, which is a more reliable than a traditional spinning disk and is super fast, but it is also super expensive (over $1000 for the disk drive).Originally posted by Greg Ambrose on 3/7/2010The fact that you BC fans revel in the superiority of your team in an admittedly weak league leads me to believe you will be more sorely disappointed when the end comes than we will.
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Originally posted by Nick Papagiorgio View PostAffordable SSDs can't get here fast enough... It really is unreal how expensive they are right now, though.RITTIGERS FOR LIFE!!
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Originally posted by Nick Papagiorgio View PostAffordable SSDs can't get here fast enough... It really is unreal how expensive they are right now, though.
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Originally posted by walrus View PostLost my hard drive in my laptop, no warning, no issues, just locked up using firefox.rebooted and got an error code 140-2000 I think it was. Can't get laptop to boot with recovery disk(or with a linux CD) when hard drive is in laptop. Take the hard drive out and it will boot. Any ideas how I can get my pics off the old drive. Anyone ever use one of those recovery services?
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Originally posted by BassAle View PostAfter having one in my work laptop for a few weeks I started pricing them out (256GB, no way I was going to pay for the 512GB SSD) for my home computer... then I decided I didn't really care that much if my computer could boot in 3 seconds. I _almost_ felt bad having my employer pay for a $1200 disk drive.
500GB for a hundred bucks. Yeah, it's not blazing fast like a full SSD, but faster than what I have now.
Your thoughts on it?Growing old is mandatory -- growing up is optional!
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Originally posted by SteveP View PostI'm considering this Seagate hybrid SSD.
500GB for a hundred bucks. Yeah, it's not blazing fast like a full SSD, but faster than what I have now.
Your thoughts on it?
We are pretty spoiled at work -- the software developers in my group have 27" Apple displays, a MacBook Pro (our choice of screen size) w/ 8GB of RAM and 512GB SSD drives. We develop analysis tools that work on large data sets (and would often run out of memory back when 4GB was standard for our group).
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