K330 with a dead (?) drive

Saturday, the machine worked fine. Sunday, Win7 updates were done. Tried turning it back on-- "select boot drive". There is NO harddrive option. There is a low, long beep from the drive (not mobo beeps, unplugged HDD-- beeping stopped). Tried to boot from a mini xp disk, doesn't recognize drive. Spinrite doesn't see a drive, took out drive put it in a driver reader, won't mount. Even 30m in the freezer didn't help. So now that it's dead (pretty certain it's a goner); is there a "recovery" disk from Lenovo so that I can install to a new drive?

if you have no cds that came with it then there was a recovery partition was on the hdd if the hdd and you never did a persional backup then you will have to buy a copy of windows, how old is the pc if its still under warrenty then they should replace it, if not goto the hdd web site and see if the hdd is covered
Thx dave
yoga 2, lenovo b540
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adk97 wrote:
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I was able to erase and reformat one of the drives on my powerbook running 4.6. The other drive appears to be DOA, as it clicks and blinks and does little else.
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Here goes: I have a older Mac Pro with four internal drives. One drive, my boot drive, failed.
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greetings all,
i hope everyone's celebrations were enjoyable. one of the gifts i recieved was a crash for my external FW drive.
i need some diagnostic help. im pretty sure it's not a software problem but i wanted to be sure...
the enclosure gets power. the image wont mount. the drive is not seen in the system profiler. it IS seen, however in disc utility but all the options for repair and restore are greyed out.
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My misunderstanding.
no harm, no foul.
Kyle,
In the company I run we have about 15 or so various
different PowerBooks from Pismos to Titaniums to
Aluminum G4s in use currently. Eight of them use the
slot-drive, and of that, seven drives have had to be
replaced within 18 month of service. Two twice by
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slight indeed. These recent PowerBooks have proven,
in our experience, to be delicate AND finicky when
they want to be -- and deadly time consuming to
repair.
interesting. my experience, while more limited, is quite different. i had many troubles with tray loading drives on ibooks and imacs. not with the optics inside but the mechanics of the trays. i haven't had these kinds of problems with the slot loading drives ive used except for a powerbook that had ben dropped and indeed was bent. the bottom case was seriously warped and the drive stopped mounting discs. i had to pay for the bottom case replacement but the drive was still under applecare. but that drive failure was my fault not its own.
oh well, thanks again for posting.
i tried discwarrior and got the same results as with data rescue....nothing. i guess i'll get the cd's out of boxes and start ripping again. sheeesh.
grace and peace,
kyle

Dead drive in a Zen Xtra, need help w/ replacem

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