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Laptop hard drive failing - help
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<blockquote data-quote="Topper" data-source="post: 117441" data-attributes="member: 186250"><p>Well C H</p><p>Unless you have a portable CD writer which connects by firewire or printer port or a zip drive that does similar telepathy would seem your only option. It sounds like the read/write head may have detached from the arm if it is whining, and all it will be doing is damaging sectors all the time it is running. You could do com port to com port with another PC but it will be very slow. Lap link used to do such software but I never personally used it. What O S is the lap top???</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Topper, post: 117441, member: 186250"] Well C H Unless you have a portable CD writer which connects by firewire or printer port or a zip drive that does similar telepathy would seem your only option. It sounds like the read/write head may have detached from the arm if it is whining, and all it will be doing is damaging sectors all the time it is running. You could do com port to com port with another PC but it will be very slow. Lap link used to do such software but I never personally used it. What O S is the lap top??? [/QUOTE]
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