[nmglug] Check a disk?

[J. Marsden DeLapp]

On Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:50:39 PM Satsangat Khalsa <satsangat at khalsa.com> 
wrote:
> 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.

I would not be so quick to declare the motherboard toast. It could also be the 
power supply.

If you are having problems reading a 2.5" HD using a USB connected external 
enclosure, that could also be a power problem.  You might try feeding the 
external enclosure 5V from a separate power supply, if it has a 5V input. Or 
try connecting it to a powered USB hub.

Mars

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> 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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