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October 8th, 2008, 10:41 PM
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| Joined: Oct 28th, 2007 Last Online: 04:31 AM Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 67
Car: 2006 Honda Accord Rep Power: 5   |  Hard drive failure? My sister called me up yesterday to say that her Thinkpad X31 wasn't working anymore. She said that she heard a grinding sort of noise and then the computer froze. Now, everytime she tries to start it up it says "operating system not found" and "mediatest failure". Is the internal hard drive kaput? And if it is, where can I find a hard drive to specifically fit inside the X31? |
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October 8th, 2008, 10:54 PM
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| Squirrel Mincer  Joined: Feb 17th, 2006 Last Online: 07:29 AM Location: Market Harborough, UK Age: 18 Posts: 3,479
Car: '77 Land Rover Series III LFS Status:  Rep Power: 53   | Hmm, that does sound like a hard drive crash I'm afraid. Obviously the first thing to do is try reinstalling the OS, but a grinding noise is never good news. Any 2.5" drive would fit, I googled and it uses 2.5" SATA-150 drives. I've never heard of a laptop using special drives to be honest, but now manufacturers might start putting solid-state drives in the very top end laptops. Matt
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October 8th, 2008, 10:54 PM
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 Joined: Oct 23rd, 2007 Last Online: 08:16 AM Location: A Victoran ode to the Test of Time Posts: 204
Car: Citroen Xsara Rep Power: 12 | Most laptops use 2.5" drives, you'd need to check whether it's an IDE or SATA connection but you're looking at this sort of thing: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/produc...d=14&subid=896 |
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October 9th, 2008, 02:27 AM
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| Joined: Oct 28th, 2007 Last Online: 04:31 AM Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 67
Car: 2006 Honda Accord Rep Power: 5 | Alright thanks guys. I'll just find a cheap hard drive on newegg and ship it to her. |
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October 9th, 2008, 02:50 AM
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| Hormone Induced  Joined: Jun 21st, 2005 Last Online: 07:53 AM Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Posts: 5,785
Car: Pimpmobile Rep Power: 68 | Quote:
Some IBM tablets use annoyingly expensive 1.8" drives, but they're pretty rare. | |
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