3 months to change a HDD then...

3 months to change a HDD then...

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ssray

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1,094 posts

224 months

Monday 19th May 2014
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Not being very computer literate, it has taken me since Christmas 2013 to clone and fit a 320gb HDD into our old(ish) toshiba laptop, The orig 120gb HDD was failing
I used www.aomeitech.com to clone the orig HDD onto the 320gb one

all was ok and I even repartitioned so we had 190 odd gb`s free

Then the laptop would switch on with the HDD light on(would be off when old hdd was not happy) but not boot up
now I have refitted the old one to the laptop and if i connect the 320gb one as an external drive and go to computer (in vista) the bar at the top starts filling (green) then gets almost to the end and will not go any further

the 320(newer) hdd runs< i can feel vibration when its running and it gets warm(not as warm as the old 120gb one)

so how could I access the data on the 320 hdd or copy it? job for pros or???
Ta
Ray

James_N

2,921 posts

233 months

Monday 19th May 2014
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Plonk the 320gb HDD into one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/160772048921

The docking station connects to your computer via USB and it also works with memory cards etc. Handy bit of kit to have lying around.

ssray

Original Poster:

1,094 posts

224 months

Tuesday 20th May 2014
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I have connected the hdd via an external hdd case, so its connected via the usb, tries to load looking at the bar at the top of the screen, but never actually will
Ray

8bit

4,846 posts

154 months

Tuesday 20th May 2014
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So the computer will start up if you put the old HDD back in, but not if it's got the new one inside it, is that right? Did it ever work OK with the new HDD in it?

ssray

Original Poster:

1,094 posts

224 months

Tuesday 20th May 2014
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The old Hdd was showing as failing and would sometimes not boot up, initial the HDD light would show then go out, so I cloned the old HDD onto a 320gb one(orig 120gb)
this worked and the laptop booted up with no problems, since the 6th of may, we have done nothing unusual to it and now the 320gb hdd will not boot up either when fitted as primary drive or after refitting the old drive as primary the laptop boots up, but when I plug the 320gb one in via the usb port, it will not allow the hdd to boot up, in the check computer screen the bar across the top shows the hdd loading but gets near the end and will not fully load

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annodomini2

6,860 posts

250 months

Wednesday 21st May 2014
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When you say 'cloned', I'm guessing you've just copied the files over?

Polariz

867 posts

154 months

Wednesday 21st May 2014
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annodomini2 said:
When you say 'cloned', I'm guessing you've just copied the files over?
I presume not, because merely copying files across from an O/S drive is not sufficient to set the MBR to get the PC to boot from it. A cloning tool will copy all this stuff over properly.

It does look like the drive is toast. Does it boot up in another PC?


Edited by Polariz on Wednesday 21st May 14:30

ssray

Original Poster:

1,094 posts

224 months

Wednesday 21st May 2014
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after cloning or whatever i did(?) the lap top booted up really well with the newer 320gb hdd, its been working fine since the 6th of may, we have done everything we normally do and not not working

I can hear and feel it spinning up, i can get wd software to see it ,but if i try and fix it the laptop is unresponsive and it will not work

ssray

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1,094 posts

224 months

Monday 16th June 2014
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Being on night shifts, i have not had time to take it into the local comp shop, I attached the hd to the works computer last night and I was able to open the HD, i could see e,f and g
F being vista, i can not open vista at work as the pc is locked to something else, it showed that there was 242gb`s with 191 free

Any ideas where to go from here?
Ta
Ray

8bit

4,846 posts

154 months

Sunday 22nd June 2014
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I'd think if you can attach the drive to a different PC and it seems to work OK on that then your own machine may have a duff disk controller. I've seen that happen with a few HP laptops, not used enough Toshibas to know if they do that too but it's not outwith the realms of possibility.