Hi all,
My wife's (User:Panyd, who wears the tricorn hat) laptop's hard drive has failed - it isn't recognised by the laptop when it boots up. We've run system restore, etc, and tried to ham-fistedly get it working, but nothing has been successful!
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.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give us!
All the best,
Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
My wife's (User:Panyd, who wears the tricorn hat) laptop's hard drive has failed - it isn't recognised by the laptop when it boots up. We've run system restore, etc, and tried to ham-fistedly get it working, but nothing has been successful!
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.
Can you get on IRC? (#wikimania ; I'm jeremyb there) or where are you? if you happen to be in Wikipedia Loves Libraries (Gelman Lib rm 702) I can try to help. otherwise maybe ~9 or 9:30 at dupont circle hotel?
-Jeremy
Jeremy,
Thanks for the offer - someone has contacted us with a Linux CD they can lend us. I'm in the State Plaza hotel at the moment, in the North tower. I'll try to log on to IRC soonish. I'm TheCavalry on there. We can't make it to WLL due to health issues, but we'll be around later in the afternoon :-)
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On 11 July 2012 15:21, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
My wife's (User:Panyd, who wears the tricorn hat) laptop's hard drive has failed - it isn't recognised by the laptop when it boots up. We've run system restore, etc, and tried to ham-fistedly get it working, but
nothing
has been successful!
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.
Can you get on IRC? (#wikimania ; I'm jeremyb there) or where are you? if you happen to be in Wikipedia Loves Libraries (Gelman Lib rm 702) I can try to help. otherwise maybe ~9 or 9:30 at dupont circle hotel?
-Jeremy
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What sort of computer is it?
Steve Zhang
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On 11/07/2012, at 3:17 PM, Richard Symonds richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Hi all,
My wife's (User:Panyd, who wears the tricorn hat) laptop's hard drive has failed - it isn't recognised by the laptop when it boots up. We've run system restore, etc, and tried to ham-fistedly get it working, but nothing has been successful!
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.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give us!
All the best,
Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable at http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk
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A slightly chipped HP Pavilion dv6, with Windows 7 and added cracks.
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On 11 July 2012 16:25, Steven Zhang szhang@wikimedia.org wrote:
What sort of computer is it?
Steve Zhang
Sent from my iPhone
On 11/07/2012, at 3:17 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Hi all,
My wife's (User:Panyd, who wears the tricorn hat) laptop's hard drive has failed - it isn't recognised by the laptop when it boots up. We've run system restore, etc, and tried to ham-fistedly get it working, but nothing has been successful!
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.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give us!
All the best,
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I can transfer a English Windows 7 installation image from my home to here and write to a DVD. But is it necessary to check the hard disk first?
(2012/07/11 16:31), Richard Symonds wrote:
A slightly chipped HP Pavilion dv6, with Windows 7 and added cracks.
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On 11 July 2012 16:25, Steven Zhang <szhang@wikimedia.org mailto:szhang@wikimedia.org> wrote:
What sort of computer is it? Steve Zhang Sent from my iPhone On 11/07/2012, at 3:17 PM, Richard Symonds <richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk <mailto:richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk>> wrote:Hi all, My wife's (User:Panyd, who wears the tricorn hat) laptop's hard drive has failed - it isn't recognised by the laptop when it boots up. We've run system restore, etc, and tried to ham-fistedly get it working, but nothing has been successful! 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. Thanks in advance for any help you can give us! All the best, Richard Symonds Wikimedia UK 0207 065 0992 Disclaimer viewable athttp://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia:Email_disclaimer Visit http://www.wikimedia.org.uk/ and @wikimediauk _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l_______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
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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.
-Andrew
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
A slightly chipped HP Pavilion dv6, with Windows 7 and added cracks.
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On 11 July 2012 16:25, Steven Zhang szhang@wikimedia.org wrote:
What sort of computer is it?
Steve Zhang
Sent from my iPhone
On 11/07/2012, at 3:17 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Hi all,
My wife's (User:Panyd, who wears the tricorn hat) laptop's hard drive has failed - it isn't recognised by the laptop when it boots up. We've run system restore, etc, and tried to ham-fistedly get it working, but nothing has been successful!
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.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give us!
All the best,
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The issue is that the hard drive may not actually be connected: we've spotted a crack on the bottom of the laptop, and think that the hard drive may have "disconnected", ie, become unplugged, from the rest of the laptop as a result of that. Installing anything won't be possible until we can get something running to find out if the hard drive is broken, or just unplugged.
I'm running some tools on it at the moment to see if something fixes it. Who knows! I might just get lucky!
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On 11 July 2012 17:06, Andrew Lih andrew@andrewlih.com wrote:
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.
-Andrew
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
A slightly chipped HP Pavilion dv6, with Windows 7 and added cracks.
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On 11 July 2012 16:25, Steven Zhang szhang@wikimedia.org wrote:
What sort of computer is it?
Steve Zhang
Sent from my iPhone
On 11/07/2012, at 3:17 PM, Richard Symonds < richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
Hi all,
My wife's (User:Panyd, who wears the tricorn hat) laptop's hard drive has failed - it isn't recognised by the laptop when it boots up. We've run system restore, etc, and tried to ham-fistedly get it working, but nothing has been successful!
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.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give us!
All the best,
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