Primary Hard Disk Fail -- why?
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depending on the nature of the failure, you may be able to have someone boot a bootable os like knoppix and recover data off the drive. As for why it failed, there are any number of reasons, since it's not a bad sectors issue (or at least not reported as such) it's probably a mechanical problem with the motor or arm (sometimes the drive can't spin up, or the arm can't track right). For a more detailed diagnosis, you can go to your drive manufacturer's site and download their data tools for testing your hard drive. That will run whatever tests it can and give you more info.\n\nIf you can't get the data off with some sort of bootable os (or be putting it in another computer as a secondary drive) then the only way you're going to get that data is by taking it to a specialist, and they usually charge in the 1000's for data recovery and that's not even for the whole drive. What they have to do borders on forensic work, so it costs a pretty penny.
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You can use software like "FinalData2", I have been in this before and helped someone here in Yahoo Answers to recover his hard drive (Check my best answers).\nIf you like I can go again with you and help you too, send me your e-mail, and mark me as best answers.\n\nXLMan
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Sorry, need more info.\n\nAn inactive drive maybe faulty, or a system partition.
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your harddrive has either failed, or needs reseating, if it is removable, take it out and put it back in, and try again, if you get the same message, it is time for the repair shop, unless you can change it yourself
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Hmm, i think it's a dead end. Buy a new hard drive and do not buy Dell PCs next time, they are ready to blow up. Or try booting up in a few days, there may still be miracles. If so, quickly backup all data .
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Is the program suggesting it can't format your hard drive?\n\nIf that's the case you probably have a dead drive and need to replace it.\n\nSome more details would help us help you but you probably need expert help.\n///
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You possibly have a bad hard drive
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If the drive doesn't have a partition on it then you might need something better than scandisk, like seatools Desktop\n\nhttp://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/\n\nSeatools although it's written by seagate will check any harddrive for bad sectors, or other problems. Download and burn the iso.
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I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.\nSome hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful
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It sounds like there is a lose connection between the hard drive and the motherboard.  Check your ribbon cable.  If that is not it maybe do a chkdsk/f to check for any errors the drive may have.
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I'm sorry to tell you but I think it's dead. The click of doom is never a good sign and if there is fire involved? Hell, you're lucky the damned thing even turned on. You need to get a new hard drive man.
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Try this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk
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I would suggest you right click on my computer and go to manage and then that will bring up a console and you go to disk management and you should be able to see what it says about your external drive ie if its un allocated or w/e. Post back with that info, btw did this hard drive work correctly in your other computer before it broke down or did it break down because the hard drive broke down or what ?
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1- May be your C drive is write protect\n2- Check your c dive, may be full\n3- Or your CD have error!
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just try cloning the hdd by having them both in the same box and running ghost. then it's a 1 step deal and less foulable. should make a direct copy thats usable. be sure the proper jumper is selected on the new drive when you install it to be the primary boot device (a common oversight)
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The most sensible answer is that you've pulled out one of the connectors for the hard drive. Try pushing them back in?
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I've run into this issue several times. Like the previous responder said turning off the feature in BIOS worked once, but I recall another time when the message was genuine and the drive failed within a week of the first message. \n\nBest thing you can do is ensure your data is backed up so in the event it does fail you're covered. But I wouldn't replace the drive until it does fail for good.