can you replace your hardrive in a laptop if it goes bad?
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A hard drive is an independent interface although an essential one for a PC to be able to work.\n\nAny hard drive in any computer is replaceable... from servers to desktops to laptops. However any motherboard of the PC has a defined capability to handle a hard drive. Some older PCs, Servers or Laptops may not support the present day available hard drives. So check the compatibility. \n\nThere have been various technologies like IDE E-IDE SCSI as interface standards for PCs. Now if your Laptop has an interface for IDE and not E-IDE then the new hard drive u install will be ok for IDE. But if you use the E-IDE hdd then it might just address 8.6 GB and not higher. At the same time there are devices to bridge these gaps too. However the possbilities of complicated additions in a laptop are limited\n\nAs suggested by someone if replacement of interfaces such as HDD cost a fortune then you might as well buy a new equipment. \n\nAll the best.... and happy upgrading
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You don't need to replace your hard drive.  One of the sectors of your drive has gone bad.  You just need to do a low-level format on that partition.  The software for that is available from the company that made the hard drive, although you should also be able to get it from HP.  \n\nOnce the low-level format has been done, you'll have to then format that partition, reload Windows, then on your first boot, do a ScanDisk (called Error Checking, in Windows XP), with the option to "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" enabled.
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there may be a screw holding the drive in place (usually on most laptops) put a paperclip in the hole in the fornt of the drive to open the drive, then pull the whole thing out. then reverse these steps to put a new one in
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Put the notebook to in a dry place for 1 week..then\nTry to see if it starts up if not....then\nYou can buy external 2.5" HD caddy cases, so that you can take the Laptop harddrive out and put it in the caddy and connect to any computer with a USB port to transfer your data.\n\nCould be a costly repair job, if you've not got accident cover
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Yes, you can.  It's on the hard drive.  Make sure the service technicians do not plan to wipe your hard drive prior to returning your laptop to you.  A good tech won't, but the bozos at places like Best Buy often do.
203955
Your best bet is to boot from floppy or CD and just repartition/reformat the hard drive.
767428
Unfortunately it means that your hard disk is dead. Better take the laptop back to the shop. Data is hardly ever recoverable.
57793
So is it not still under that warranty, I assume? (If it is send it in!) \n\nMany people buy broken laptops to either fix or strip of the other parts. I say put it up on ebay with a startng price of about $50, see if it sells for that, you may even get more, because it isn't that hard to buy and replace a harddrive! (Hell, I wouldn't mind fixing it, and I knwo how to do it! and I generally suck at computer things) It may just be more cost effective for you to get it fixed?\n\nHell, if you want to send it off and then have it shipped back to me, I'll give you $100!
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Is your laptop hard drive working properly?! Try running a scan-disk to make sure!
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The easiest way would be to take the hard drive out of the laptop and hook it up to another PC.  There's no need to buy anything extra if you've got an extra bay available.  \n\nHere's a good tutorial for it:\nhttp://www.ehow.com/how_6030_install-second-hard.html\n\nWhen you're done copying, just unhook it from the data cables and power supply.  That's it.
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do u mean a back up disk?
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you should use a laptop coverter to install as a slave on a nother computer.\n\nhttp://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HD-108&cat=HDD\n\nthen you might need a data recovery software. here is a good free one it is called PC Inspector File Recovery\n\nhttp://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html
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sounds like the drive is bad, get a replacement
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You will find some diagnostic tools and low level format tools on www.maxtor.com (select software downloads). If the diagnostics fail then it is time to replace.
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nope. The hard disk drive stops running when it hibernates, so you cant download anything into it
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You could always take out the hard drive and install it into your new computer as a slave drive, hopefully the drive isn't fried but if it isn't you will be able to explore the drive and drag any files wanted onto your new drive. \nIf the drive is in good condition, you can then reformat the drive and keep the drive as a slave for your new computer
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Most external hard drives are just an internal ide drive with its own power supply. You should be able to remove the drive, set it as slave and install it in your PC. This is pretty simple. If the drive is still ok, you can then recover the data.