Just fire up time machine.

/flame suit on

thanks DAN for reminding me

*plugs in 1tb external hdd

lol

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what ya mean where does it say checkdisk?

I would say chances are your hard disk has died, or is dieing. Laptop drives have a rough life. They get moved, dropped, shaken etc so they can just "die". You may have noticed things running a bit slower than usual, maybe odd resets occasionally.

Best bet is to try and get your data off before you stuff around with it too much. If it is dieing then each time it spins up and down or you try to get stuff off it, it dies a bit more.

If it's an IDE drive you can by IDE caddy's for like $20 from Storm computers. If its a sata drive and you have a desktop with sata connections you can easily connect it up to your desktop to get your info off. Otherwise you can also get the caddy's for SATA drives for a similar price.

Once you get your stuff off it, then look at rebuilding windows. If you have problems getting windows to install properly or get odd errors after it installs, usually means your drive is pretty much stuffed. Replacements vary from $100ish up to $400ish depending on what kind of drive and what size you want.

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hmm i took out the HD and tried to put it into my other external laptop casing and they have different pin outs.. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rr


so now i have to go and buy another external laptop HD disk case..

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Well if its the HD then i should get a new one under warranty as i have a 3yr extended warranty on it..

the laptop is a toshiba satellite with a 80G HDD.. so what type of caddy would i need??

my sony vaio HD has different pin outs to the toshiba

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Hmm if it's still newish then chances are its a SATA drive. Problem is, with Toshiba or anyone for that matter, they don't care about your data. They will first try wiping your drive and re-installing the standard image for that model. If that fails then they'll just replace the drive. Either way you loose your data.

One thing to try if it's IDE is there may be a adapter on the pins of the drive. You could try pulling that off and you might find it fits your caddy.

http://regmedia.co.uk/2007/03/06/fuj...60gb_hdd_1.jpg - This is a SATA drive, you can see there's no "pins" as such.

http://www.nr-it.com/images/hdds/wdf..._VE%20copy.jpg - This is an IDE drive, as you can see there's quite a few pins.

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yeh its a sata drive and my old sony one was a IDE drive.. went into work and my IT guy plugged it in to his machine and did a scan disk sweep and repair.. seems to be all good now but im backing everything up just in case..

So does it mean my HDD is failing??? I shouldnt need to reload windows again would i??

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your hard disk is not failing.... there is a virus running round doing this!

oh okay so have i fixed it then by correcting all the errors??

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