Well then it becomes a question of putting it in and on that part- as you well know- I'm something like a chimp with a college degree with stick in my hand and a dream.
The geek squad at best buy will probably do it for like 50 bucks. You should also have them see if they can get the stuff off your old hard drive, depending on the way in which your hard drive failed, that's either really easy, or stupidly hard. Either way you should hang onto the old hard drive. But there's no universe in which replacing the hard drive in your computer should be more expensive then buying a new one, even with labor.
If you have the money from a computer that wasn't made in 1917 and runs off punch cards though, you might wanna invest.
I'm in the process of looking up the exact failure by the error code. It's one long flash/six short so that might be able to tell me where or how it failed. It's possible that failure has nothing to do with data loss, indeed but I'm generally prepared inclined to assume cataclysmic loss such that when its not really that bad I'm pleasantly surprised.
I might just buy an HD and have Fry's slap it in there since they can do it while you wait and for generally cheaper then Best Buy. You just have to put up with the attitude and the hateful behavior, its part of the Fry's experience...
Well there is a trick I pull often. Get an external case for a 2.5" IDE laptop hd. get a new drive. Slap in the drive. stick the old drive in the freezer for about a half hour(weird I know but sometimes it will get the drive working temporarily.)Place drive in external case. Use this brief time to make an image of of the old Drive onto the new drive. If it works you will be exactly where you left off. If it doesn't work you can do a clean install.
Another trick. If the Hard drive spins but has a bad sector Spinrite. is Da Bomb. It can recover harddrives most of the time. The above trick works if it is a bearing failure.
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But no actual skill.....
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If you have the money from a computer that wasn't made in 1917 and runs off punch cards though, you might wanna invest.
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I might just buy an HD and have Fry's slap it in there since they can do it while you wait and for generally cheaper then Best Buy. You just have to put up with the attitude and the hateful behavior, its part of the Fry's experience...
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