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On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 09:28:42 -0800, Eric Gisin wrote:
The heads will not load unless spindle is spinning. Therefore, you cannot have clicking without spinning. PC World is full of ****. http://www.pcworld.com/video/catid,1...e,1/video.html How to Resurrect a Crashed Hard Drive - PC World Video PC World says the freezer trick will only work for a clicking but not spinning hard disk drive. Interesting! So, you're saying that, since I clearly hear a sequence of initial loud clicks (about a score of them in about as many seconds) in the naked laptop hard disk drive hooked up to the USB port via the IDE-to-USB adapter ... then my drive is spinning for sure because it's clicking? I had already realized it was spinning because when I pressed on the top of the hard disk drive, I could hear a whirr as I made something touch something else. I've already put a spare hard disk in the kid's laptop - but now I have an activation problem. I can't get past the activation screen which just hangs. I'm sure the hard disk has a valid WinXP but obviously for another laptop (not the one I put it in) - so I'm not surprised the Winxp OS balked .... but shouldnt' Windows XP give me the opportunity to enter whatever information it needs? How do I enter whatever information it needs if it just comes up with a blank Windows Activation box which hangs for hours with no way to enter anything. Why is the world punishing me! ![]() ![]() |
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