3 months to change a HDD then...
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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
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
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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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
Screen shot
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
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
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
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
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