Palm life drive dead?

I'm having trouble with my palm lifedrive. I turned it on this morning and all I get is the Palmone screen and I'm unable to do anything. I tried a hard and soft rest. No luck. Just the same screen and a scratchy noise. Is my palm dead. What can I do? How can I replace it?
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When you did the hard reset did you get the erase all data message?
Have you tried a warm reset to see if a 3rd party app. or corruption on the device may be causing the issue?
Click on the following link to the kb.palm.com webpage for the article regarding reset procedures.
http://www.palm.com/cgi-bin/cso_kbURL.cgi?ID=887
If you need to get the device repaired you can call Palm handheld support at 866-935-7256 to setup a repair.
Click on the following link for the support page for your device on the kb.palm.com webpage.
http://www.palm.com/us/support/lifedrive/
There are links on the page to the user guide, troubleshooting, how to's, downloads, etc.
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i was afraid of that, but i cant work out what i did wrong :/ i always ejected the drive, i used it earlier today and transfered 30GB worth of files and it worked, then i had it in my pocket and went out.. came back and when i tried to use it again after a few hours it just did not want to work and i tried everything..
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Does Palm realize the problems with the life drive. I have always thought of the palm company as being very reliable but my palm life drive is not turning on though the light says its okay. I would like some one to email me if possible what should I do with it. Itdidn't make any noise. It just wont turn oin. The green light is showing me that it is charged but it still won;t turn on. I need a fast answer please email me what I can do next. Thank you. I am new to the forum.
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Repairs can be found at usedpdaparts.com or pdaparts.com. Usedpdaparts.com offers a "LifeFlash" upgrade that removes the broken Hard Drive, and replaces it with a Compact Flash card slot that has a 4gig card inside it. PalmOS is reloaded on it, and you end up with a reliable device!
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Hello Neptune180 and welcome to the Palm forums.
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Hello horselady and welcome to the Palm forums.
Is there any fix so that I can sync my Life Drive through Vista with programs that have regular updates?
Palm Desktop 4.1.4e should work, for the most part, on Windows Vista. You can install Palm Desktop 6.2 on a Vista computer and the LifeDrive will sync with it, however, ACCESS has removed some features that were previously available in the older Palm editions of Palm Desktop. (Long story short, Palm no longer owns the rights to the Palm OS and the HotSync Manager.)
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I had a Palm One Life Drive given to me by my mother and she said she could not get it to turn on. I got it to turn on but the only thing that shows up is the start up screen and then it goes black and repeats it. This is all it will do. My computer has tried to sync with it and I get this message: "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and Windows does not recognize it."
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Hi landzgirl, the LifeDrive had a fragile tiny harddrive in it that was prone to failure after time.
This may be the case with you device.
You can try a Hard Reset as a last resort to revive it:
To perform a Hard Reset: (Palm Knowledgebase article #887)
http://kb.palm.com/wps/portal/kb/common/article/887_en.html
While pressing and holding the Power button down, tap and release the Reset button in back and continue to hold the Power button down. When the grey Palm logo appears, you can release the Power button.
You should now see the warning page in about 5 languages. Press the UP direction on the 5-way pad to complete the task. Your Palm will reset itself several times as it re-installs the original programs and erases all your previous data.
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Hi, so I recently bought an enclosure for my old HD that died out on me, I suppose? My mac was asleep, then I pressed any button on the computer to wake it up, then I clicked on Mail right away, and it froze for a while.. so I held the power down to restart it. When it restarted, it gave me a white screen with a folder with a question mark on it. I was told my HD was bad. So I changed it, now my mac is up and running. BUT... i need my old files from my old HD. I bought an enclosure, plugged and played.. nothing comes up. How can I get my old files? Please help!!!!

This one has an outside chance of working. But if it doesn't work, _be warned_, might make the data completely unrecoverable through a professional data rescue service. I've only heard about this and never done it myself. You put it in the freezer. Not sure why this is supposed to work, but it might.
_Much safer to try Data Rescue first. I would try this only as a last resort._
For others, try googling hard drive dead freezer and see what you think.
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I placed the drive in two zip lock bags expelling as much as air as possible before zip locking both bags. I left it in the freezer for approx. 12 hours with no luck, but after freezing it for extended periods of time, it worked like a charm. It is also important to note that this is generally a one shot deal, if it works, you’re in luck, but you must get as much data as possible from the drive because once it dies, it is rare that you will gain access a second time.
The 3 times I did manage to get the data back, I exhumed only the data that I absolutely required. In other words, only the data I created or files that I placed on the drive.
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Thanks for anyone that posts and helps me out here. These forums help alot.
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Stopped working and saw blue screen with question mark the other day. uh oh.
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now that I have some time going to do erase and install.
I suppose info is on the apple support website for the exact steps.
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At startup I got a folder with a question mark.
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