20 Most Recent Hitachi TravelStar 80GN 80 GB Hard Drive Questions & Answers

Hi Anon Try connecting your hard drive to another computer and running the windows disk tools to test your drive, make sure that the options to automatically fix errors are selected, if this does not work then a suite of hard drive tools from Acronis (disk director) or Paragon (Hard disk manager) may be able to fix your problem.

what is this mini tool????
click start control panel administrive tools computer management disk management right click on your drive select properties click tools you should see click check now click start two boxes automatically fix files and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors place then a tick in both boxes then select check now start or you might tick one box then return after its finished the first repair then return and tick the second box you should not do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage your computer another possible reason

the leads from your ((motherboard to your hard drive)) make sure they have a secure connection and are not faulty or just replace them they could be faulty a faulty lead can give the same error message
hope this helps

Hello, Try checking the link below for the contacts of Hitachi there in India "http://www.hitachi.co.in/directory/index.html"
Thanks for using Fixya.

www.hitachigst.com/
But with a 80GB they stopped making them i believe you can try that.

Hitachi maintains a page to answer questions about obtaining warranty service at the link below:

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/warr_faq.htm

You must obtain and "RMA" (return merchandise authorization) prior to sending any drive to Hitachi. This entire procedure is outlined at the link above.

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If it's fully dead nothing in this world will raise it back to life. Buy a new one.

probably a little bit late but I think I found a solution ...

1.pull the hard drive out of the laptop
2.boot computer into bios settings
3. set a new bios password and check lock computer
4.while the computer is on slide the HDD in the laptop again.
5. save and exit bios
6.fortunately in the next boot you will get your hdd back

There are two ways. First, if you know the BIOS password then most probably you know and would not have come to Fixya. Two, if you do knot know it or have forgotten, which is most likely the case, then you must turn the laptop upside down and open up the bottom plates till you find a button cell. Remove the button cell for a few minutes and then reinsert it and screw back all the plates you opened. Turn the laptop upside up and power on. You will find that the BIOS password has been removed.

Hey,

Please find below the address:

Hitachi India Trading Pvt. Ltd.
Plot No.18, Community Centre,
Mayapuri Industrial Area Phase II
New Delhi – 110 001 India
Tel:1860-180-9080 (Toll-Free valid across India from BSNL/MTNL), 011-23704606
Fax: -
Email:[email protected]

Please visit http://www.hitachiconsumer.com if you need any other information related to HItachi.

Astitwa

Sir my harddisk drive is not working
please give to me Delhi Service center number

Hi
I suggest to go ahead with data recovery company bcz there is lots of possibility to loss the data if you try on your own..plz dont take any risk on this...

T.Boopathy

You need to Login As an Adminstrator then change the sercurity settings

use hitachi dot com..and use the regional setting to discover that service facility...

hi ,

that may Help you http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=22568

I have reposted on your main question page.

Hi, What the message mean is that Windows can not read/understand the filing system (something like the Table of Contents in a book) and therefore do not which and where are your files in the 80Gb. A few things you can try: 1. Run Windows Scandisdk on the Hitachi 80Gb; 2. Run any third party disk check/utility such Norton Disk Doctor. Alternately, you can use a file recovery software (such as GetDataBack) to recover/copy all your important files from the 80Gb and transfer them to another mass storage device. Thereafter, you can re-partition and re-format the said Hitachi to start new/fresh/clean. Hope this be of some help/idea. Post back how things turnes up or should you need further information. Good luck and kind regards.

If you can get an identical Drive you can change the Data PBC Board....... this will work in alot of cases.... if platers and damaged the data is gone..... don't open it....... if you do throw it away....

if you have 1394 also know as firewire, use that option. If this is an external hard drive, like what is depicted, than it maybe possible the enclosure has failed.Try testing with other cables or ports.