yeah, my laptop died...I lost ever picture, movie, sound clip, word doc., PDF file, etc that I had created or edited since December 24th 2005...so I ask you GS, if you see any pictures of my car or w/e (other than what is on my GS page or Cardomain page) in the forums or on any other website I would appreciate a link to it so I can copy and paste it back into my computer files...thanks for your help in restoring my files on my NEW laptop.
(o btw, besides losing all of my car stuff, I lost over 2 months worth of class notes, reports, and study guides... so I don't know how often I will be able to be on GS!)
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02-24-2006, 12:12 AM #12005 Mustang V6 s/c
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MY COMPUTER DIED!! and so did most of my pictures and work...
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02-24-2006, 12:19 AM #2GT geek
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Are you sure it was a hard drive crash?
I have had more then one grateful co-worker who thought they lost everything bring it in and I was able to slave the drive or use it in an external USB enclosure and get all their stuff back2000 Mustang GT
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02-24-2006, 12:21 AM #32005 Mustang V6 s/c
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haha no my fans shorted out, and the harddrive physically FRIED!
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02-24-2006, 01:34 PM #4Life begins at 8 psi...
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It takes a lot for a hard drive to fry. They have thermal resetting capabilities that automatically park the heads and turn off the motor if a certain temperature threshold is exceeded. You should remove the hard drive from the laptop (you'll have to pry open the laptop per its tech reference docs), and use an external USB enclosure like suggested by joekd.
Originally Posted by stolenheron
You'll be amazed at how hardy those laptop drives are.1997 SVT Cobra Vert (Black)
2001 Audi S4 6-speed (Silver)
1992 Subaru SVX LS-L (Silver/Black)
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2004 SVT Cobra Coupe (Black) - 2004 40th Anniversary Limited Edition (authentic...) Mustang GT Vert (Black with Arizona Beige stripes) - 2000 Mustang GT Vert (Silver) - 1994 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSX (Red) - 1990 Eagle Talon TSi AWD (Red) - 2000 Toyota Celica GT-S (Silver) - 1991 Toyota MR2 Turbo (Red) - 1999 Mazda Protege ES (Silver) - 1990 Undisclosed Ford Vehicle (dark blue) - 1985.5 Toyota MR2 (Red)
"Eaton" F-Bodies since 2004...
(But 'til 2005...)
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02-24-2006, 03:13 PM #5Gotstang? Regular
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I would have the hard drive looked at and see if you can hook it up to a regular computer as a slave drive and pull the info off of it....it may not have boot capabilities etc anymore, but there is a good chance that it still has the info you had on it and is recoverable....
just out of curiousity, was it a Dell laptop? they are renowned for hard drive problems...in fact, im on my 3rd and my friend is on his 4th in his laptop
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02-24-2006, 03:34 PM #6Gotstang? Moderator
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Burn CD roms. Ya gotta back-up your stuff.
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02-24-2006, 08:00 PM #7I'm a Rocket Scientist!
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I had a virus whipe out my whole computer in November, I had to do the same thing.
1998 Mustang GT Coupe & 2001 Mustang Cobra Convertible
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