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Hard drive won't power up
Here's another picture of two hard drives:
http://zone.ni.com/cms/images/devzon...%20Desktop.png The one on the left (3.5") is one you would find in a desktop PC (or a tower, if it stands upright). The one on the right (2.5") is one you would find in a laptop. If I read the advice correctly, you were advised to remove the hard drive from the laptop (Shenan believed there was something wrong with it and figured you might as well save the data before it's too late) and place it inside an external case like this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817182145 But Shenan may have reached this conclusion (that your hard drive was dying) based on your statement (using the incorrect terminolgy) "I pushed the power button on the hard drive it turned itself off after a minute." You later indicated you meant the laptop and not the hard drive! This statement: "Saturday when I pushed the power button it would shut off as soon as my finger left the button. I could hear the fan turn on and off." .... indicates a hardware problem to me. And if you don't want to lose the stuff on your computer, you should certainly follow Shenan's advice (of find someone competent who can do that for you). You say you have the laptop connected to an external hard drive. But this won't help you if you can't run the laptop (if your immediate goal is to save all your important data). Then again, if you had been using a good backup strategy (you never did tell us if you did or didn't), then all your data would be on that external hard drive. But based on your worried statement, I doubt this is the case. :-( jemster wrote: Thanks Daave I needed that! :-) Also I was advised to get a case for my external hard drive to use it with my laptop. Why do I need a case? "Daave" wrote in message ... Ah. :-) This is what a hard drive looks like: http://rjmcomputersboise.files.wordp.../hardrive2.jpg (opened up) http://learnthat.com/files/2010/03/hard-drive.jpg If your PC (personal computer) is a desktop, you can probably call it a tower. :-) The hard drive, by the way, contains data (operating system, programs, and all your many files like documents, photos, etc.). jemster wrote: Power button on the computer. Sorry, I thought it was called the hard drive-the tower or whatever. "thecreator" wrote in message ... Hi Joni, Power Button on the computer or Power Button on the External Hard Drive are you talking about? How old is the computer in question? -- thecreator "jemster" wrote in message ... I have a Gateway desktop (Win XP Home w/sp3 IE 7) and lately it has been slowing down painfully slow despite running Avira anti-virus, Spybot,, PConPoint, doing disk cleanup, defrag, etc. Last Thursday I turned on the monitor and when I pushed the power button on the hard drive it turned itself off after a minute so I kept doing it and each time it would load a little further before it shut off. It finally stayed on until I finished with email and shut it down. Friday went thru the same thing praying all the time it would let me do a system restore. I was able to do that to a week prior .and thought it would be ok...ha...doing my own thinking again. Saturday when I pushed the power button it would shut off as soon as my finger left the button. I could hear the fan turn on and off. I have so much stuff on that computer that I sure don't want to lose...oh I also have had a external hard drive connected to it. What do I do/try now? Thanks Joni |
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