HDD Failure!

Published on October 3, 2008 in rant by risu. Closed

Kuso!  During lunch, I was prepping stuff to upload to the blog and my laptop suddenly locked up – like the cursor didn’t move, I couldn’t launch the task manager, and I couldn’t shut down!  Eventually, a long press on the power button shut it down, but after that it wouldn’t restart.  The power light would come on, there would be silence when the HDD should be spinning up, then the DVD drive would seek and the power light would go off.  Krap!  I’ll try and power up the drive outside the machine and read from it to see if it is really toast.  Luckily it is still under warranty, and the authorized Toshiba service center is right down the street from work!  I’m reasonably AR about backing shit up, so I think I only lost an MP3 that i just encoded last week, maybe an Excel file… oops!

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  • Chucke
    October 3, 2008 at 10:56 pm

    Dave, I think I still have your hard drive enclosure thing. Sorry, I forgot I had it still. Will bring it to the office on Monday.

  • Roy
    October 7, 2008 at 2:50 pm

    That sucks brother. You should get an iPhone. Not really an on-topic reply, I just want to convert the world. Oh yeah, so… my plan is to upgrade the hard drive of my laptop but it can only use sata 2.5 hd’s… they’re kinda expensive. I was thinking of getting a external hd from best buy and just cracking it open and taking it out of the case and throwing it into my laptop.

  • risu
    October 7, 2008 at 3:00 pm

    After careful consideration, looking at descriptions of similar failures online, and having Fabio look at the drive over the weekend, it seems to be a system board issue, and not the HDD. Krackking open an external to harvest the drive is not a bad idea. Beast Buy had some 500GB Seagates on sale in Sunday’s newspaper ad. If you are careful about busting it out, you can put your old drive back in the case and use it as a backup external. Some of those cases come apart once and need tape and zip ties to keep it shut afterwards!

  • Roy
    October 8, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    This is very true, most of them don’t have screws to take them apart. I’ll see. If only I could figure out which external 2.5 hd’s are 7200 rpm or just 5400 rpm. I only brought this up because internal 2.5 hd’s are $50-100 more expensive than the externals.

  • Roy
    October 8, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    Board problems, you may want to get a new one. Hopefully with more pop this time, or at least put some new grip tape to give it that “fresh” feeling.

  • risu
    October 8, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    Speaking of which, I just got new a Santa Cruz 8-ply PowerLyte 31.25 x 7.5 deck the other day. Just put the Mob Grip tape on yesterday, but haven’t cut it yet…

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