Laptop Problems
 

anyone in here good with computers ? i know nothing about them and my laptop decided to neg itself. its a gateway laptop about 3 years old. i have a lot of stuff for work on it, also all my music and stuff id like to get it back to life is possible. i think its sometihng with the operating system ? i get the black screen with the options for starting windows so i hit start windows normally, brings me to a disk drive check, click to skip the disk drive check n it brings me to my log in screen, from there i enter my password and it loads for a good 30 seconds befor it says i cant get on. also there is like a tapping sound coming from inside the computer. on the boot menu it says there is no operating system found, also, my disk drive is messed up but im not shure why or how it happend. could the disk drive be the problem ?

This isn't a solution, more so my normal first-try-cop-out, but nonetheless, try resetting it to a date before you started experiencing problems. Taking it easy on the midget pr0n wouldn't kill you either.

no pr0n on laptop sir. how does one reset it back to date ? remember, i know nothing about computers. at all.

system restore.

i took all the covers off the back and found out were the "tapping" is coming from

Got access to a second compy?

ya. im on my desktop now, and i have the ipad i can get on the internet with

Get a hard drive enclosure, put your old hd in it, plug it into your desktop. If it gets recognized go to a cmd prompt and run chkdsk /f on the drive letter. It will take a while but will fix file pointers and indexing. Once its done pull your important files to your desktop for backup and try the drive in your laptop again.

Sounds like when my hd bit the **** and I lost it all. Still haven't learned my lesson.

i got that clunking sound when my hard drive failed too. you might be SOL on this one beggs

gave the laptop to my friend to see what he can do...


also picked up a new macbook :)

That's cool. However you should have picked up an external hard drive.

Yes.....copy as much data as you can off of that drive before it gives up the pretty blue smoke.

- Justin

thats what im having my friend do. i told him about it and he said hell be able to get the stuff off and maybe see whats the deal is.

Good stuff

- Justin

Staples. $95. 1TB. Best computer related purchase evarr.

no, roller coaster tycoon is

That game is wicked good.

External hard drives can still fail. You should buy server space.

Buy an external SSD, or a large flash drive if you are worried. You can eat a flash drive, **** it out, and it will still work.

Server space is great, except anything you upload is now on somebody else's server. You need a very good agreement to keep things private.

so in the event the hard drive is blasted, what to do ? throw out computer, or can i mod it with a new harddrive or something

You can buy new hard drives bro.

It's a simple repair.

sooo... new harddrive, plug n play, go go go ?

Put it in the freezer for a while

Then try this.

Sometimes it works to get your data off

SSDs give you a new issue though. If something does go wrong, you have practically zero chance of getting your data back. We lost more than a dozen SSDs in laptops last year at work (in less than 75 laptops). Obviously we had a piece of some sort of defect (I think Dell told us it was a controller issue), but you never know....

- Justin