Power Supply dead now Hard Drive?
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Try the HD on another computer.  If the HD truly was toast the system bios would have gone through its POST and reported a HD failure or no boot up device.  \n\nWhat you might want to try if you find that the HD works on another computer, unplug the power to the comp and all devices attached to the computer, remove the CMOS battery from the motherboard, and let the residual charge drain from the system.  Just a few minutes should do it.  Reinsert the battery and power up the machine.  If the computer boots you will need to go into setup and check all settings, (time, HD, video source, memory) and then boot to windows.\n\nI just worked on a comp that had the same symptoms as yours, and before I decided to pull the HD to put it on my bench system I  popped the cmos battery and it rebooted and is still running two days later... The cmos apparently got scrambled when the PS failed, why I don't know...  just a suggestion.\n\nFre.
1047795
Replace the Hdd. This is the easiest solution.\nThere are other things to try but, it is best left to someone who already knows how to do it. IF you did, you would not be asking.
1059600
well my first thought is....it over-heated and died.\n\nHD's produce heat, quite a bit of it actually, so it being in an external HD case, when it's meant to NOT be covered, probably caused the temp to rise and your HD to burn out, or it could just be normal  mal-function, and the drive could just be done.\n\nalso sometimes it's connectors etc....there are many things to troubleshoot when it comes to a HD not functioning properly
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If the hard drives aren't being detected by another PC and not even by the BIOS there's two possible problems.  The hard drive control board is fried or the interface cable is bad.  If you aren't sure about the jumpers remove them and plug the black connector into the drive, that way it's the only drive and it will set as master, if it works you know it will be the jumpers.  Usually moving the jumpers to the far left setting sets the drive to Cable Select, on your IDE cable black is mater and grey is slave, try that.\n\nAlso, is the drive even coming online, you'll here it when power is applied, if it is not even doing that then you can rest assured your drive is dead and pretty much unrepairable or irrecoverable save a miracle, though there are data restoration services, they charge by the megabyte.\n\nI'd say that if you have it plugged into power and at least just try having one connected on the black IDE connector and it does nothing, like I said, it's dead.
1046358
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.
744801
could be a power supply or overheat issue
261729
Is your computer plugged in?  Can you be a little less specific?
11971
first check led of power of cd-rom is glowing or not.\nif not then check the power supply of drive. \nif it is glowing then check databus of drive and check it's connection in motherboard.\n\nthen it is not working then repair the operating system.
699852
The Blue Screen of Death..... try to start in safe mode. if that will not work,  your HD might be Dead....
36219
1) if it's a power supply issue, replace the power supply in the host machine.\n\n2)You can pull the drive and install it as a secondary internal drive in another machine.\n\n3)Buy an external usb or firewire enclosure, install your hard drive in it. And now you have the ability to connect that hard drive to any computer with a usb or firewire connection.
1059404
Take out the battery, disconnect the AC power supply and hold in the power button for 30 seconds, put the battery back in and reconnect the AC power then see if it will power on. If no, check on the side of the computer where the optical drive is, see if it has a little hole on the optical drive (emergency eject) and stick an unfolded paper clip in it to manually eject the disk. Then call tech support and see if the laptop can be serviced.
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1. Unplug all computer connections.\n2. Take off computer case.\n3. Find the cord going from your existing hard drive to the motherboard. There should be a free connection there somewhere.\n4. Plug in the new hard drive into that empty slot.\n5. You should see a 4 prong power cord coming from your existing hard drive. Find another one coming out of your power supply and plug it into your other hard drive.\n6. Screw in your new hard drive.\n7. Shut case and plug cables back in.\n8. Restart computer. Your computer should recognize the hard drive regardless of OS.\n\nPlease note that while these instructions work fine for installing hard drives on my computer, they might not work very well for yours. I'd get a second oppinion before you go tinkering w/ your computer if you've never done it before. Also, consult your computer manual for more detailed instructions.
1144845
most likely the internal power module died. if this module is hooked on the mainboard, you can probably replace it yourself. otherwise if the internal power module is integrated on the mainboard a repair will be pretty costly.
1011981
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.
906343
Maybe your hard drive needs to be de-fragged?
773023
Contact your local Computer Guy, there are ways to get the disk and the data out of your laptop without powering it up.
710505
Your hard drive has failed. Contact a technician.