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    Hard Drive Not Booting / Reading

    The drive I replaced it with is a 1TB Samsung and seems to be running fine. But like I said I was looking for ideas on how to recover data or fix the drive.
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    Hard Drive Not Booting / Reading

    It's not showing on disk management when I have it plugged in via the dock. I tried refitting it the laptop and booting it up using my ubuntu disk but it said no drive found when I tried to access. Also diskpart list disk is showing my temporary hard drive in laptop and saying - no media on the...
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    Hard Drive Not Booting / Reading

    I tried that first, when I plug the hard drive in internally to the laptop but it doesn't find any device. I can only get the laptop running when I plug in another HD internally and boot from that. I currently have the HD that isnt working plugged in via SATA Dock trying to get it running but...
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    Hard Drive Not Booting / Reading

    I am having a problem with my Toshiba Internal HD, my computer done the latest windows update and it restarted and now its saying there's no bootable device. I've tried booting in safe mode, removing battery, holding power for 30secs etc. I've also taken the drive out and put in another drive...
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    Surface Blue Screen Error : 0xc000000d

    My surface is showing the error code "0xc000000d" whenever it boots up and I can't get it to boot to my usb windows 10 boot installation - i've tried the hold down the volume down button and press power button and release when surface logo disappears. I can get to the UEFI panel but there is no...
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    Samung Notebook - Screen goes black after bios info

    Does anyone know what would cause the screen to go black after displaying the boot screen where you can press F2 / F4 etc. I can get into the bios and into the F4 for recovery. But the minute it goes past that screen normally, it just stays black and can't see anything (no windows load logo...
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    HD won't boot when DVD-Drive is connected

    finally figured it out. I had to put the jumper set to Master with Slave attached and the bios is reading the dvd-rw as a slave strangely. but its working now
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    HD won't boot when DVD-Drive is connected

    just don't understand how it was working fine, remove the cables - now it doesnt work after re-attaching them
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    HD won't boot when DVD-Drive is connected

    When the dvd drive is plugged in, the hard drive doesn't read in the bios. It only reads then the dvd drive is unplugged
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    HD won't boot when DVD-Drive is connected

    I am having some problems this morning with one of my desktops. I had plugged in my one of my other hard drives as a slave at the weekend to back stuff up. Removing the wires from the DVD-RW drive and using them to connect to the other hard drive. All went fine and everything backed up. But I...
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    Hard Drive Not Reading but has a noise (mp3 inc.)

    i backed up about 80gb last night before bed to disks. Put the machine on today and then turned my external drive on and its making that noise now and it won't read in my computer so can't open it or try and use a recovery tool as it doesn't seem to be finding it
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    Hard Drive Not Reading but has a noise (mp3 inc.)

    Hi Guys, My external hard drive has stopped reading on my computer and has a lot of photos on it. Was backing them up to that before a DVD disk and disaster struck. I have recorded the sound it is making and you can hear it on this link that i've uploaded it to my website (as mp3 upload...
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    HP Mini Screen Replacement?

    Hi Guys, I smashed the screen on my HP Mini but unsure what version of the HP Mini it is. I went onto price screens but there is various versions of the HP Mini. How do I tell which version it is (no identification on laptop besides saying HP Mini) - or are all the mini screens the same...
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    Asus - Some letters not working on keyboard

    I stripped it apart and reseated the connection but no difference, I googled the keys and this came up (the exact same keys not working) http://www.brohoof.com/forums/topic/7172-need-help-with-keyboard-problem/ Any other suggestions what it might be?
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    Asus - Some letters not working on keyboard

    Will check it out, just noticed also: I can't seem to get into the bios or safe mode - tried F2, F8, F10, F12, DEL etc but nothing happening. Running windows 8, theres nothing comes up at the start saying press such or such for bios or boot menu etc. Nothing is there - doesn't matter what I...
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    Asus - Some letters not working on keyboard

    Hi Guys, I have an Asus K55A laptop and I turned it on today and i've noticed a few of the keys aren't working - 90% of them are working, but the W, R, U, keys aren't. I have tried an external keyboard and it seems to be working fine with that, I have ran spyware tests and virus scans and...
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    HP Win 7 Loads to Starting Windows Screen and Reboots

    the only option I can adjust in bios is the date, password, memory test, language, fan always on and boot options. everything else is greyed out
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    HP Win 7 Loads to Starting Windows Screen and Reboots

    boots to the same in safe mode, starting windows then reboots. I get a warning as soon as I turn the machine on if that helps, had it for a while now. "the system has detected the storage capacity of the battery stated below to be very low, this batter must be replaced." "Primary Internal...
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    HP Win 7 Loads to Starting Windows Screen and Reboots

    check it, replaced it with other ram. no difference
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    HP Win 7 Loads to Starting Windows Screen and Reboots

    My windows 7 boots up fine to 'starting windows' then it just restarts, I've tried booting with win 7 disk and doing system repair but it ran for like 18 hours and was frozen, don't have a system restore date. Any suggestions on what to do?
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