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Hard drive burned out???!!
My 5100 refused to boot up.
All i get is white on black menu with safe mode, last stable mode, normal mode etc.
All options result in blue screen.
Previously, today i've been hearing noise on the left side. I thought it was CD-rom, now I'm thinking it was the HD burning out.
please reply asap
the diagnostics tests seem to show that everything is perfect. In reality, it seems that the NTFS file system has gone down with all the data on the HD. so what is there left to do other than reformat and reinstall?
the question is: what could have caused such damage???
CatoftheNight
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Posted December 26th, 2004 23:00
A virus maybe...And hard-drives aren't flawlessly perfect, I suppose there could have been a small hardware malfunction??Consider it lesson learned; Back stuff up.Message Edited by CatoftheNight on 12-26-2004 06:51 PM
CatoftheNight
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Posted December 28th, 2004 23:00
That's what warranties are for; making sure you don't get defunct hardware.I thought warranties were a marketing scam because they always run out the day before catastrophic system failures. :smileyvery-happy:
anyway, now that i reinstalled windows, what do I do? Modem's not found, etc.
This sure isn't Toshiba's rescue disk.I pity the fool who doesn't have a Comp. Sci. degree and has to reinstall everything from scratch.
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Posted December 26th, 2004 00:00