On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:26:50AM +0000, Zach wrote: ... > both cannot be read. Has anyone ever heard of anything like this > happening before (the HD is god but cannot be read due to fault in the > system's hardware)? I hope whatever is wrong didn't damage the data on
yes, chipset/controllers/power-supply can fail just like any other hw. On the data-loss side, depends on the kind of failure. Your's sounds like a failure on the 'power' side, so perhaps the HD could not get enough power to do the right - and then hopely nor the wrong - things. > Do you know something I could buy that would connect to my small > laptop hard drive and allow me to mount it as an external hard disk? I look for pcmcia adapters - check if your nb can boot from a pccard drive, but that's not essential as long as your nb have a CDD (does it have it?). On a very old 586 nb I could manage to boot from an external HDD which replaced the CDD of the external PCMCIA kit. Of course, YMMV (a lot). -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
