Mr Whippy
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 posted on 11/3/14 at 11:27 PM |
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oh oh whats wrong with my laptop???
I have a HP laptop, what I'm using right now, its been well looked after and always kept clean
I was just in youtube 20 mins ago listening to music when it started making a once a second high pitched chirping noise so I turned it off. When I
tried the restart it came up with a message No boot device and inset boot disk
So I switched it off again and gave it a thump and now its going again as normal with no strange noises.
What's wrong with it??? I'm just about to save the C drive to an external hard drive but is there other things I should be doing???
advice please, scared to turn it off now in case it doesn't go back on again  its normally a good behaved machine
thanks
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woodstock
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| posted on 12/3/14 at 12:20 AM |
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That does sound like it could be your hard disk on the way out. Your laptop will only have one physical drive even if it shows as more than one in
Windows so I'd backup all your data to an external drive over USB or your network. Prioritise the most important bits in case it goes while you
are trying to backup.
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 12/3/14 at 12:41 AM |
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this is very sad I don't even have disks for windows etc, even if I got a new hard drive I'd have to buy them and then somehow sort out
all the systems files etc don't know how to do that
computer looks like new  damn
thanks for the advice though
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woodstock
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| posted on 12/3/14 at 12:52 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
this is very sad I don't even have disks for windows etc, even if I got a new hard drive I'd have to buy them and then somehow sort out
all the systems files etc don't know how to do that
computer looks like new damn
thanks for the advice though
You can possibly clone the disk if it stays alive long enough. You could clone it to an image on usb drive now and then restore that to the new drive
once you have it. Alternatively you can clone disk to disk once you have the new one. I haven't done this in while so can't really
recommend a product. For simplicity you can get something like USB3.0 2-Bay 2.5"'/3.5"' SATA Hard Drive Disk Dock Station
HDD Cloning Duplicator although i've not used one so can't be sure how good it'll be. They normally assume the disk is
working.
You will need to know if the disk is SATA or IDE though. If it's recent it's probably SATA
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coyoteboy
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| posted on 12/3/14 at 01:41 AM |
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Clone it.
or
Swap to Linux
or
Find a dodgy copy of windows.
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britishtrident
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| posted on 12/3/14 at 07:31 AM |
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Simple things first, it could well be a problem with the fan causing overheating, on laptops a good clean out of accumulated dust from theheat sink
and fan and cleaning the contacts on the hard disk and memory can work wonders.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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ReMan
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| posted on 12/3/14 at 08:15 AM |
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As said it certainly sounds like the disk
Assume it is and prioritise saving any important data , pictures docs etc onto a USB stick or external drive if its too big.
After that then look to fix/replace as suggested
www.plusnine.co.uk
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The Venom Project
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| posted on 12/3/14 at 11:39 AM |
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Sounds like the disk platter is buggered. Some HDD's make a pretty tune when they are Fecked
It's not that i'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.....
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The Venom Project
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| posted on 12/3/14 at 11:41 AM |
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In the past I have removed certain drives failing and put them in a bag and into the freezer for 2 hrs, this normally allows operational time to
remove some if not all data before the heat generated causes the failure
Just don't forget you put it in there like one of my members of staff did after 2 weeks (Has anyone seen the hard drive from this machine?, not
since you put it in the freezer Jim)
It's not that i'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.....
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ken555
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| posted on 12/3/14 at 02:10 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
this is very sad I don't even have disks for windows etc, even if I got a new hard drive I'd have to buy them and then somehow sort out
all the systems files etc don't know how to do that
computer looks like new damn
thanks for the advice though
If you're stuck, I teach Computing at the College in ABZ, would be 1/2 days "exercise" for one of my students to swap the drive and
re-install everything for you.
Bag of sweets/Pack of biscuits would be all the payment they need
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britishtrident
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| posted on 12/3/14 at 03:51 PM |
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You guys are much much too quick to jump to the conclusion it is the hard disk --- yes it could well be but always check simple cheap to fix
things first, an overheating processor can lead to some pretty odd symptoms.
Video play back is highly CPU intensive if like most laptops the cooling system is full of fluff and the fan gunge up the CPU will just fall over
until it cools down which fits the description.
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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gremlin1234
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| posted on 12/3/14 at 04:21 PM |
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whether its the drive or not, you should make a good backup asap.
also hp laptops usually have a recovery partition on the disk, but restoring from that restores windows but destroys your data.
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