If you wan't to carry around serious data get a portable hard drive usb caddy. 4gig flash drives are expensive and hard to find and for maybe a bit more you could have 20gigs to 40gigs in your pocket. and can get fairly robust usb caddys.
Your hard drive is dead, get a new one or try the one from your pc to see if the problem definatly is the hard. (actually I'd suggest you do that first) Also be careful who you tell about this someone could think it is stolen.
I tried to install windows on a laptop hard drive but it kept failing, so I decided to give up and make it an external hard drive with a usb connector. so I deleted what little files and folders were on there but it wont delete "system volume information", how do i get rid of it. (without...
My mums friend has a strange pc, after windows loads up nothing happens the screen turns blank completely ( not even that flashing line thing in the topright hand corner!) and I have no idea wat it is!