I need to remove the hard drive to be able to connect it to my desktop. I need to see if I can scan it for viruses, disk check, disk defrag and do a system restore. I cannot do these things from the laptop as I am getting the black screen of death (disk error). Your help is appreciated.
SOURCE: Windows XP Unsuccessful on Start Up
try using a boot disk or bootiong into your bios and change your boot setings to external drives
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SOURCE: Hard Disk upgrade
Figured this out...
1) Flip laptop over, keep front of laptop closest to you and hinges away from you
2) Remove cover with cylinder/harddrive icon (2 screws)
3) Remove small single silver screw near the front (close to you) of the laptop in the center of the metal harddrive caddy (the caddy may hold one or two hard drives)
4) Pull the plastic tab on the left toward the outside of the laptop... the whole caddy with harddrive(s) inside will shift to the left, disconnecting it from the motherboard and lining up the caddy for removal.
5) Lift the entire bracket straight up
To remove the primary harddrive (the only one present in my model) you must remove the blue L-shaped circuit board from the caddy.
1) Flip the caddy over
2) Remove the three screws with slightly larger head diameters around the perimiter of the caddy
3) Push/slide/jiggle the circuit board so the sata connectors release from the hard drive(s).
4) Unscrew the hard drive from the caddy
SOURCE: HP Pavilion Dv5-1008TU Hard Disk / Hard Drive not detected.
The hard drive test could not detect the hard drive, indicates a faulty drive.
Also if the drive does not spin up or is making clicking sounds then the it is definitely faulty.
You need to buy a new drive.
SOURCE: My acer 4320 can't see my hard drive - media test
The PXE media test failure suggests it's trying to boot from the network as it is reached that method in the BIOS boot order due to no other boot devices being available, this can be ignored.
If you have the option, reset your BIOS values to default or fail-safe. This should in theory set your hard drive configuration options to Auto if present, though your disk drive may still be faulty and it may never be seen using with conventional methods. Does your disk spin at all?, does it make unusual noises? If you can get your drive detected, please continue reading. If not, other methods may help.
Swapping hard drives does not usually work correctly in the manner you describe, modern Windows operating systems will require the correct hard disk controller driver for your platform and fail to boot completely unless it happens to be similar to your old system. Even then, it's unlikely to find all drivers correctly; however it would be a start.
With your old hard disk in, as it was, please boot from your Windows XP installation CD (if available, and if XP), press R when prompted, select your installation (if present) and run 'chkdsk /r' in the console.
If using Vista, there is a repair icon on the first screen after the language selection which is mostly automatic.
Regards,
Jon T.
SOURCE: how do i open aspire one to check hard drive?
Well..... i understand that your notebook has dropped and not able to boot with an error.. to isolate this issue i strongly recommend to the steps given below
1. restart the noteboot or press the power button to restart......
2.Now press the function key F2 this takes you to BIOS which u can see the options in a blue screen.
3. Here in BIOS mode you need to perform HDD self test.
If the test failed to examine the hard drive then you need to replace the hard drive.
Hope this could help u...... For further quries give me reply...
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