I am no expert. Here's a few questions that might

help provide some basic information for diagnosis:

Under what circustance did the hard drive go dead? Was it all of a sudden while in use, or was it when you try to boot it up following a previous shut-down?

Is the hard drive internal or external?

Does the hard drive status light come on when you power on the computer? What appears on the screen at that point?

Disconnect all USB or firewire devices while the power is off. Leave only the keyboard and mouse. The power it on. What happens now?

If the hard drive is external, try it on another computer.

Hard drives these days are fairly robust. The chances of the drive going bad physically is slim. Most of the problems are due to device conflict, or lost of partion tables, etc.

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• I had a Seagate External HD that failed within 70days -lvtotravel- ♀ (1796 bytes) () 10/26/2006 postreply 16:08:13

• you had a bad sample. On top of that, Seagate isn't -moab- ♂ (159 bytes) () 10/26/2006 postreply 16:20:14

• sorry about all the typos--got to run late for class. -moab- ♂ (0 bytes) () 10/26/2006 postreply 16:21:08

• they make money on extended warranty because hardly -lvtotravel- ♀ (389 bytes) () 10/26/2006 postreply 17:28:14

• lvtotravel is the expert of filing claims! -阿姗- ♀ (549 bytes) () 10/26/2006 postreply 18:24:22

• I was pretty upset for the damn drive died in 70days! -lvtotravel- ♀ (1510 bytes) () 10/26/2006 postreply 19:23:30

• 回复："they make money on extended warranty because hardly -moab- ♂ (836 bytes) () 10/26/2006 postreply 20:09:37

• I tend to hv bad luck w/anything electronic I buy -lvtotravel- ♀ (2069 bytes) () 10/27/2006 postreply 13:43:27

• you must have a big dipole moment to what's around -moab- ♂ (21 bytes) () 10/27/2006 postreply 13:58:03