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• Hard drive question

  jesslloydfan > 05/08/2013, 20:20

  Right then, not sure if many people will know how to help but can't hurt to ask, any posters, admins etc on here have any clue how to fix a broken hard drive?
  Basically it turns on goes to the screen where it says Acer in big letters and then shuts itself down and restarts itself almost immediately, goes to the same screen and repeats until the battery flattens (I can't stop it once it starts with the button), stays on about 10 seconds in total on each restart before it does it again.
  Anyone who knows more about computers have any idea how I could solve this? If anyone can help me get it going before Wednesday night is officially awesome lol.
  Seriously any and all help appreciated.

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  warchylduk > 05/08/2013, 21:56

  is it a laptop or desktop hard drive ?

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  jesslloydfan > 05/08/2013, 22:27

  Laptop hard drive mate, I can even take the thing in and out no problem and have even tried accessing but plugging it into a pc as an external just to read it but it doesn't recognise it, although that may be because the laptop hard drive is windows 7 and the pc I'm trying to access it with is Vista.

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  oilman > 05/08/2013, 23:25

  This might help...
  
  
  
  
  Sorry, couldn't resist that!

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  Outlaw87 > 05/08/2013, 23:34

  (05/08/2013, 20:20)jesslloydfan Wrote: Right then, not sure if many people will know how to help but can't hurt to ask, any posters, admins etc on here have any clue how to fix a broken hard drive?
  Basically it turns on goes to the screen where it says Acer in big letters and then shuts itself down and restarts itself almost immediately, goes to the same screen and repeats until the battery flattens (I can't stop it once it starts with the button), stays on about 10 seconds in total on each restart before it does it again.
  Anyone who knows more about computers have any idea how I could solve this? If anyone can help me get it going before Wednesday night is officially awesome lol.
  Seriously any and all help appreciated.

  
  Does it give you any buttons to press for menu screens, or any way to access safe mode?

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  jesslloydfan > 05/08/2013, 23:59

  I can't get it to safe mode it doesn't 't stay on long enough to get to safe mode it just continually shuts off and restarts itself. I tried to get it to safe mode but it doesn't do it, just does its endless loop of restarts. I've got the horrible feeling that it's totally fucked, although I'm really hoping I'm wrong about that.

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  Outlaw87 > 06/08/2013, 00:05

  (05/08/2013, 23:59)jesslloydfan Wrote: I can't get it to safe mode it doesn't 't stay on long enough to get to safe mode it just continually shuts off and restarts itself. I tried to get it to safe mode but it doesn't do it, just does its endless loop of restarts. I've got the horrible feeling that it's totally fucked, although I'm really hoping I'm wrong about that.

  
  Before my current laptop (Dell) I had an HP which overheated like a motherfucker, eventually the hard drive melted, HP/Compaq and I think Acer all have problems with the heat sync, which eventually kills them

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  jesslloydfan > 06/08/2013, 01:21

  (06/08/2013, 00:05)Outlaw1987 Wrote:

  (05/08/2013, 23:59)jesslloydfan Wrote: I can't get it to safe mode it doesn't 't stay on long enough to get to safe mode it just continually shuts off and restarts itself. I tried to get it to safe mode but it doesn't do it, just does its endless loop of restarts. I've got the horrible feeling that it's totally fucked, although I'm really hoping I'm wrong about that.

  
  Before my current laptop (Dell) I had an HP which overheated like a motherfucker, eventually the hard drive melted, HP/Compaq and I think Acer all have problems with the heat sync, which eventually kills them

  Well when I plug the hard drive from the laptop (via a case to make it external originally bought for a ps3 hard drive I had to replace due to it being full) into a computer it says I can't access without formatting it, it already is formatted so I don't know if that's a good sign or not. The fan of the laptop is a bit fucked though.
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