Da Mail Man
Active Member
Greetings all!,
It has been a while.....I have a Dell Optiplex GL280 (an older one for sure) 3.2ghz, 2gb ram in 4 slots, win xp pro, 1 TB SATA hard drive....
About 3 days ago, was using computer and about an hour later came back to it and it was no longer operating...It was on but, that is all I remember at this point....I wish I could remember what the screen looked like but, I cannot. Re-booting It says "cannot read from drive."
It is making no clicking, grinding or other unusual noises and I can feel it vibrating (spinning). Nothing rattles when gently shaking.
I have a dell diagnostics disc and ran that and it found a "crap-load" of errors with the ram and/or ram slots!
I have attempted to place the hd in 1-2 other dell computers of similar speed/ram configurations and still get the same error......I hesitate taking good working ram out of another Dell and place into the computer but, if i have to, I will....I am desperate to retrieve some vital info from it.....
I have quite a few "3rd party recovery discs" but, not sure what that will do or even work since I cannot read from disc (aforementioned disc error message)...I have an external hard drive reader that I connected to the drive and another computer and it will show the drive but, not access or read from it when clicking on the icon of that drive...
I need assistance and suggestions very badly...I doubt the head arm is sticking and assume if it was, I would hear clicking...This computer has NOT over-heated or been subject to ANY bumps or jarring.
It has been a while.....I have a Dell Optiplex GL280 (an older one for sure) 3.2ghz, 2gb ram in 4 slots, win xp pro, 1 TB SATA hard drive....
About 3 days ago, was using computer and about an hour later came back to it and it was no longer operating...It was on but, that is all I remember at this point....I wish I could remember what the screen looked like but, I cannot. Re-booting It says "cannot read from drive."
It is making no clicking, grinding or other unusual noises and I can feel it vibrating (spinning). Nothing rattles when gently shaking.
I have a dell diagnostics disc and ran that and it found a "crap-load" of errors with the ram and/or ram slots!
I have attempted to place the hd in 1-2 other dell computers of similar speed/ram configurations and still get the same error......I hesitate taking good working ram out of another Dell and place into the computer but, if i have to, I will....I am desperate to retrieve some vital info from it.....
I have quite a few "3rd party recovery discs" but, not sure what that will do or even work since I cannot read from disc (aforementioned disc error message)...I have an external hard drive reader that I connected to the drive and another computer and it will show the drive but, not access or read from it when clicking on the icon of that drive...
I need assistance and suggestions very badly...I doubt the head arm is sticking and assume if it was, I would hear clicking...This computer has NOT over-heated or been subject to ANY bumps or jarring.