Hard drive i have just bought a camera and am trying to put the software onto my laptop.however the disk will not run.i have tried the disk on an identical laptop and it loads.how can i check if my hard drive is broken

Your laptop's usb port may not have enough power to keep the portable hard drive running.

You may require additional power to the portable hdd by using a usb cable with 2 usb connectors.
or use a USB port that is powered.

its just maybe that the device is not compatible with linux. try that to windows xp and see what happen.


CHARCOIS

If it were my computer, I would purchase a new 320GB disk-drive, and connect it. Then, I would re-install Windows onto this NEWER, BIGGER, FASTER, disk-drive, and then install free anti-virus software: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials and then use that SATA/USB cable to copy files/E-mail/music/contacts from the "old" disk-drive onto the new 'C:' drive.

It's like having the police returning your STOLEN car to you. You should:
* check for sugar in the gas-tank
* check for cut brake-lines
* check for lack of oil in engine, transmission, differential
* check for lack of antifreeze
* check for drugs hidden in the door-panels or trunk (or anywhere else)

You should *NOT* just assume that your car is OK, and drive it away!

Similarly, you can NEVER be sure that you have deleted 100% of the "damage" done by the computer-virus. So, a "fresh" install, from "trusted" media, is the "best practises" methodology.

Find a computer that can fit your disk, and copy the files from the disk onto a CD-recordable disk.
Then, put the newly-recorded CD into your iMac's CD-drive.

Do you have the repair disks that came with the laptop? If so you can just install the new hard drive into the laptop, put the disk in and run it, it should reinstall everything onto the new drive.

i am assuming that your current hard drive is working, you just want to replace it with a bigger one.

you will need two things 1) a way to connect your new hd to your system (such as an external usb enclosure)
2) the software to properly clone the disk image and put it onto a new drive

go onto google and search "clone hard drive" you will find numerous free (or free for 14 days so you can do this before they expire) programs that can do this

here a few links with more details (plus links to the software)

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/08/clone-hard-drive-with-free-disk.html
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-ways-to-clone-and-copy-your-hard-drive/

It could be possible if the hard drive isnt too far gone, are you able to use it at all? have you tried to hook it up to a different laptop and see if you can access it from that? You'll probably be better off getting a list of anything that you can re-download and storing the irreplaceable stuff such as sensitive documents onto a disk. If you can do this then just reformat the hard disk and get it over with. You stand to be in for quite a headache trying to copy all your files off your hard disk and making sure all the files arent corrupted. This stands especially true if your hard disk has malware or a virus.

ummmm. the hard disk drive (aka harddrive) doesnt burn disc, and doesnt have a disc slot, i think your talking about the cd drive, it that case, the easiest thing to do is find a old harddrive and take its drive, repairing the drive takes to long,



BUT.... what you can try which sometimes works for me is remove the cover of the drive and try it then, sometime the cover can get bent and it puts pressure against the disk and stops it from spining



BUT IF YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THE HARD DRIVE then something isnt right, try ordering a ubuntu cd from www.ubuntu.com (there free) install it through windows and then boot into it and setup your software sources and go to add/remove and check the option on the list that says "all open source" or whatever and search gnome, find gnome baker, install it, and try burning a disc then


WHAT I AM TRYING TO SAY IS

it may not be a hardware problem at all, it may just be a software issue.



hope i helped at least a little

christopher aouate

try pressing f8 when you load vista and then select start normally
if that doest not work and gives you the same error then restart and press F12 as soon as you see the dell logo, put in the vista installation disk that you got with the laptop and select boot with disk option.

try and repair or the recovery option .

NOTE : IT IS RECOMMENDED TO TAKE BACK UP OF YOUR FILES BEFORE USING THE RECOVERY OPTION .

try going onto computer and see if it has removable disk right click and open or try putting usb in another port or if a disk came with it put that in .