This is the route I will take. I have tried to boot it 6 or 7 times and I will NOT power it up again. My external backup drive just got here Friday too! I was a day late. :( I have found a few places with flat rates at $700 or so. I will keep looking. Anyone have a Dell 8600? Will you take the hard drive out and jiggle it? I want to know it it rattles. Just for peace of mind. I hope it rattles.
If anyone does not have backups, go do it now. THIS SUCKS. I hve Dell complete care, so laptop replacement is free, but not the data. Joe Fiero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/27/2005, 04:42:58 PM: > Brian, > > If the data is of importance to you, DO NOTHING! Do not attempt any > additional boots. You have head damage, and each RPM is causing "pitting" > on the platter surface, literally taking bits of your data with it. Send it > only to a lab wit a clean room and one with credentials. Be prepared to > spend a minimum of $500 and possibly as much as $2000, depending on the > damage, and the amount of data you wish to recover. If it is more than a > few Gb, you will also have to send them another hard drive to put it on. > > I hope you have better luck than I did. I decided that I was as good as the > experts and before sending mine to I even tried putting the platters into a > good working identical drive I had ling around. It was a fatal error and I > lost over 2 years work (for experts, we sure screw the pooch often, don't we > ;) I was provided with the above advice by the lab I sent mine to after I > was told the data was unrecoverable due to excessive surface damage. > > Good luck. > > Joe > > > > ________________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Brian Rohrbacher > Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2005 12:33 AM > To: wireless@wispa.org > Subject: [WISPA] OT Hard Drive Failure > > > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
