Highly recommend trying to run SpinRite 6 on it if you can (and assuming you have an optical drive on the computer). Track me down at Wikimania if you need to try it out, or Twitter: Fuzheado.<div><br></div><div>-Andrew</div>
<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Richard Symonds <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk" target="_blank">richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">A slightly chipped HP Pavilion dv6, with Windows 7 and added cracks. <div><br><div><div class="im"><span>Richard Symonds</span><div>
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<br><br></div><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 July 2012 16:25, Steven Zhang <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:szhang@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">szhang@wikimedia.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>What sort of computer is it?<br><br><div>Steve Zhang</div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div><div><br>On 11/07/2012, at 3:17 PM, Richard Symonds &lt;<a href="mailto:richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk" target="_blank">richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk</a>&gt; wrote:<br>


<br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi all,<div><br></div><div>My wife&#39;s (User:Panyd, who wears the tricorn hat) laptop&#39;s hard drive has failed - it isn&#39;t recognised by the laptop when it boots up. We&#39;ve run system restore, etc, and tried to ham-fistedly get it working, but nothing has been successful!</div>




<div><br></div><div>Does anyone have a spare CD which we could boot up the laptop from, or any suggestions as to what we could do next? Everything else on the laptop is in working order.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance for any help you can give us!</div>




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