STICKERSHOCK COMPUTER PROBLEMS POSSIBLE DELAYS SO SORRY!

[GDJ]

Not sure what a SATA is.. but its a 500 Gig for my HP pavillion.. if that helps out

Serial ATA. It's the norm for Hard drives nowadays. There used to be PATA, SCSI, etc....

Okay, I got nothing that size in my collection, but Memory Express has a 500 gig for $60 CDN. Probably a bit cheaper for you. Seagate is a really good make.

https://www.memoryexpress.com/Products/MX35469

But for only a hair more you could upgrade to a 1 TB drive. Might as well.

 

[troj]

Not sure what a SATA is.. but its a 500 Gig for my HP pavillion.. if that helps out

I'm assuming a desktop.

Post a model number -- we can then find out the specs.

-Kevin

 

[kenstarr]

Good luck with the computer! We know a guy that's friends with st. George transmission (?) and went there. Most likely just a sensor so we left for Cali and got here fine! Hope we make it back fine! Thanks though.
Ken

 

[stickershock23]

Thanks for the input guys.. the ...for lack of better term MORONS her in ST G still had not made any progress I told them to put it back together and I would pick it up in an hour..

Got there in an hour it was waiting form me.. I picked it up walked out and did not say a WORD to any of them.. friggin idiots..

SO I boxed it up sent it to a TOP NOTCH guy in California... he promised I'd have it back ASAP running better than ever with a new TERRA bite of memory..

lets ee how it goes.. he is a friend of a friend of 40 plus years. this is what he does for a living for a fortune 500 company.. so I feel I will be back at it SOON!

 

[Quaranta]

No rush on mine Mark. Do whatever you need to. Get to it when you can.

 

[shrox]

Thanks for the input guys.. the ...for lack of better term MORONS her in ST G still had not made any progress I told them to put it back together and I would pick it up in an hour..

Got there in an hour it was waiting form me.. I picked it up walked out and did not say a WORD to any of them.. friggin idiots..

SO I boxed it up sent it to a TOP NOTCH guy in California... he promised I'd have it back ASAP running better than ever with a new TERRA bite of memory..

lets ee how it goes.. he is a friend of a friend of 40 plus years. this is what he does for a living for a fortune 500 company.. so I feel I will be back at it SOON!

Who is he? I have a dead drive with my Mars stuff and original rocket designs.

 

[stickershock23]

Who is he? I have a dead drive with my Mars stuff and original rocket designs.

A personal friend.. Shoot me an e-mail I will give you his info!

 

[BLKKROW]

You can always try Hirens Boot CD. It is free and has some data recovery software.

 

[cbrarick]

Shoot over to staples, get a new SATA drive and drop it in. Reload windows on that, then your programs & if there's anything left on the old drive you should be able to drop it in and pull off any data. They are a snap to put in, power and sata connector.

https://www.staples.com/Internal-Hard-Drives/cat_CL140461#fids=[%274224911607|4224914792%27]&viewDetails=%27listView%27

just a little more spendy from the egg, 3 TB for 133
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149412

 

[KenRico]

You can always try Hirens Boot CD. It is free and has some data recovery software.

+1 on that, I always use to clone drive first then run recovery on the copy if I can get the naughty drive to spin up .

Kenny

 

[stickershock23]

WEll my laptop is back up and running. My guy is now just installing stuff to make things faster and safer for me. he is also building me a new desktop system with dual hard drives so I always have a backup. it will auto update and backup for me. plus I will be able to connect my laptop to it and it will automatically update anything NEW from the laptop.

This should be done today tomorrow at the latest. then he plans on personally brining it from California and setting it all up for me.

So bottom line I am in good shape. but its still gonna take a few days to be at 100% (or more)

thanks to everyone that has been patient with me! this is a great community!

 

[Pantherjon]

:clap: Awesome news! Sounds like you have a good plan for data backup..I would go one step further..Make regular backups on a different media, like CD/DVD's.Just a suggestion...

 

[T-Rex]

External Hard drives are cheap as well.....

 

[Area66]

External Hard drives are cheap as well.....

and you have to keep it offsite, 2 hard drives in a PC don't protect from thief, fire and virus

 

[awseiger]

and you have to keep it offsite, 2 hard drives in a PC don't protect from thief, fire and virus

An internet-based cloud storage would work in this regard.

 

[warnerr]

Do NOT run recovery software, fixes, etc- it may make matter MUCH WORSE. PM me- will give you a hand. I do data recovery. First step is determininge nature of problem. I have equipment that checks heads and status FIRST before imaging. The hardware is designed to duplicate drives that are damaged. We ONLY work on copies as drives that are failing have a limited amount of time left. Once its been diagnosed to death we almost always need heads... now we are into money in the clean room! Glad to talk to you at 6196832637- either I can help or I will refer you to a top notch lab.