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My laptop was like that too tho. If you left it for a while to cool down perhaps then itd work fine for a while and then itd hang making the Ticking noise, id reboot it straight and it just wouldnt boot properly. Leave it for a while and then it would work again, get a new HDD and it worked fine.

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This being said then the data would be recoverable,either plug old hdd into a 2.5 ubs adapter cost about £20 plug it into laptop with new hdd and copy data over,might take a while and may crash,all depends how important your data is

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ater reading this thread, ive just realised that my laptop is burning my leg and the fan isnt working!!! gonna turn it off in a min, cos its been on for weeks, but how easy for a dunce like me is it to replace??

ive got an old fujitsu siemens e-series life book
errrrr but i dont know much else, maybe a trip to pc world?

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go into bios and check to see if the cpu fan is working I would imagine a system failure if it was dead
these work for keeping laptops cooler(as long as cpu fan is still working)
http://www.expansys.com/product.asp?code=115162

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well after careful extraction i managed to get my laptop hard drive out of the computer, and put it into a housing case. I've connected it now to my sisters computer, and its the same whirring noise that happened on mine, so its no doubt in my mind that its the hard drive gone caput.

Unfortunately doesnt seem i can access my info on this drive on my sisters comp.

Any suggestions? Ive tried to use scandisk, but it failed.

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is it being detected in the bios?

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its in a usb2 housing so im not sure if the bios will detect it

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ah I see - how about windows device manager - is it being recognised as a disk drive there?

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yep. But i can't access the drive content, without it locking up

Seems like it doesnt show the free/used amount in my computer, its all blue now :(

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have you tried running scandisk in 'safe mode' ?

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That wont make any difference, the drive is bummed, safe mode or not. If theres anything very important on it, id look into Data Recovery, can be expensive tho :shocking:

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not yet, i'll give it a try now
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well ive managed to save some of my backuped emails just by turning the housing upside down (30MB in 15mins)... phew.. now photos and my other stuff.

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dont go to pcworld :disturbd: , anyway , which fan are you on about ??? , taking laptops apart is dodgy if you are not totally sure about it , i know from experience ;) :D :D :D

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Update: managed to recover most of my files, the only thing ive lost of the drive is a bunch of photographs which sucks, but im glad im able to get most of it off, so im lucky in a unlucky situation.

Anyway im wondering if someone knows how to get my mozilla firefox bookmarks off the drive and onto a safer place. I can't load up mozilla and then export it in the file menu as it loads up the other mozilla installed on my sis's comp, so is there a file which keeps track of these bookmarks in the firefox folder?

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In your old Firefox Profiles folder, there is a file called bookmarks.html than contains all your bookmarks.




Click the link above for info on finding your firefox profile