Hard Disc (301) Error

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Receive the message about an error with the hard disc. Ran diagostics and hard disc and startup tests failed immediately. Computer still under warranty but I am concerned about the data on the disc. Have not backed up to the remote drive in a while and I do not want to lose what is on the drive. Any advice before sending away to get repaired?.
Thank you

Hi:
Your only option would be to buy a sata to usb external notebook hard drive enclosure and see if you can retrieve any data from it by reading the disk from another PC.
Please understand that this will be a long shot, and I highly doubt any of the data will be retrievable.
But you have nothing to lose (except the $15 - $20 for the purchase of an external HDD enclosure) by trying.

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I checked from samsunghdd.com and there was application called seatoolsDOS, just cannot run it because I cannot access Boot Advance Option. I asked one forum what to do and answer was hard disk drive is dying and Im agreeing that too now.
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Hi Mika
The Hard drive can work for 1 day or for 1 year this cannot be guessed. This is a Smart Failure ID which is captured by the unit itself. It is always better to get the part replaced.
Let us know how it goes!
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Hi,
Your notebook is listed as coming with a 320Gb Hard Drive, but you can just as easily install a 500Gb or 750Gb HDD if you want more space - the drives on the following links are examples that would be fine for your notebook - you're in no way restricted to a particular manufacturer.
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The procedure to replace the Hard Drive starts on Page 65 of your Maintenance & Service Guide.
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To start at the beginning; Just under 3 years ago, my ex wife bought my daughter (then 12) an HP G56-105SA.
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3/ Removed HDD - Plugged into spare SATA slot on my desk-top.
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F: Which was her C: Operating System partition; aprox 170Mb with all windows directories present and accessible.
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3.1/ I took my life in my own hands... and deleted six seasons of 'Glee'..... and transfered the less than a dongle sized directory called 'Home Work' to my desk-top. I emptied her recycle bins.
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3.3/ I ran disc tools....... and applied Scan Disc, full scan and fix... and 24 hours later it told me it had fixed things!
3.4/ I ran De-Frag... and another 24 hours later.. it looked reletively healthy; with about 40% free space.
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5/ Asked Daughter if she had the HP Factory Restore discs..... she looked at me as only a teenager looking at ancient, obtuse, and utterly STOOOPID pair-rent can.... you know, like she had discovered something unsavory on the sole of her shoe, she had never seen before...... with added contempt.
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6/ I returned HDD to my desk-top. I found the pdf user manual, and found the 'make restore disc' instructions & tried running the make program on my desk-top.... it refused telling me what I already knew... my desk-top isn't an HP G56!
7/ HASSLED as home-work was now due, and she couldn't print it off my Desk-Top, as I dont have the latest version of MS Office she uses at school..... I went back to basics; pulled Windows 7 install disc from the draw, went to HP support and down-loaded ALL the driver files for an HP G56-105SA...
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9/ Inserted HDD in Lap-Top. Switched on... opened DVD draw; switched off. Inserted Windows 7 disc; switched on.
ALL looked very promicing, and Got windows back-ground, USB mouse, and win 7 install prompts... up to "Select partition to install operating system'.
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Follow the instructions on this tutorial page to make a DBAN on a usb flash drive that is at least 1GB.
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You don't necessarily need to use an ISO image as suggested in the following video. You can also use your Windows 7 installation DVD as a source for the Windows 7 DVD\USB download tool.
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