[nmglug] Check a disk?

[Satsangat Khalsa]

To me that performance says the Mobo is toast (Bios is on Mobo).  You might
put that HD in another machine and see if it comes up ok that way.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome at gmail.com> wrote:

> NMGLug-ers, No boot either with or without the hdd. This machine has
> been hard to boot for over a year and may finally have overheated the
> cpu or other crucial part. It is a HP dv4 - and at least one person
> has condemned it as unreliable and over priced. It was new in 2009 and
> sold through 2010.
> thank you, Ted P.
>
> On 3/26/13, Satsangat Khalsa <satsangat at khalsa.com> wrote:
> > I'll try and make it.  With the hard drive out can you come up into the
> > Bios?
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Ted Pomeroy <ted.pome at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> NMGLug-ers, can you help me check a sata 2.5" drvie at our meeting
> >> this Thursday? It was in an HP laptop, Intel core i5 processor and
> >> running Ubuntu 10.04. Alas, it seems un-readable now. The laptop was
> >> difficult to boot, had a hardware issue of some kind but now does not
> >> even get to the bios start process. I tried to read the harddrive with
> >> a 32-bit system and the hdd crashed. Is it possible to salvage this
> >> user's data? Can we take a look. I have a usb adapter, but no 64 bit
> >> system. Is that an issue? Or has some other error trashed this hdd?
> >> Anybody interested? Thanks, Ted P.
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