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Stott

posted on 26/11/11 at 11:55 PM Reply With Quote
Laptop fail HELP please

Hello all,

Got a fujitsu siemens laptop and it's duff

It had a bit of a fit and shut itself down but now when I switch it on it shows the screen with a fujitsu siemens logo where in the bottom it says f2 for boot options and f12 for bios or something like that then it just goes to a black screen, not off, but black if you know what I mean.

If I press ctr alt del it returns to the fujitsu siemens logo screen and then goes back to the black screen.

Help!!!!!!!!!!!

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jonno

posted on 27/11/11 at 12:08 AM Reply With Quote
sounds like possible hard drive failure.. on boot press f12 and see if you can see a hdd or any tests in the bios screen





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Stott

posted on 27/11/11 at 12:15 AM Reply With Quote
I pressed one of them before and it did a test thing and it went to 99% no fault found but then it froze there for ages.

Is there any way to gett all my crap off the hdd like pics etc?

Don't care if I have to buy a new one, I've also got a tower of that works fine despite being 3 times the laptops age, can I plug the hdd into this or something?

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Stott

posted on 27/11/11 at 12:22 AM Reply With Quote
Just pressed f12, got IDE cd DVD ram something as option 2, option 3 is Sata hdd, option 7 is pci bev realtek boot agent and option 8 is legacy network card.

Oddly, there are only option numbers 2,3,7&8.

Whatever one I select it goes to black screen.

[Edited on 27/11/11 by Stott]

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Stott

posted on 27/11/11 at 12:28 AM Reply With Quote
Actually options 2&3 result in black screen, options 7&8 result in a message saying operating system not found

Bugger...........................

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Macbeast

posted on 27/11/11 at 07:32 AM Reply With Quote
You should be able to buy a caddy for your HDD which you then plug into a USB on another computer to try to get the pix etc off.





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HowardB

posted on 27/11/11 at 08:20 AM Reply With Quote
can you hear the HDD on boot up on your laptop? If it's not spining then it wont work,.. Trip to a specialist data recovery, or, well there are other less certain methods,..

If it is spining then it maybe that it's lost some boot sectors and if that's the case the external caddy will help, but you may also require some recovery software

sorry I can't help further, I hate it when it happens, very frustrating





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Daddylonglegs

posted on 27/11/11 at 08:46 AM Reply With Quote
As already said, best thing is to buy a HDD Caddy and use another PC to get the info off. They are pretty cheap now I got one from the Bay for around £12! Just make sure you get the right fitting (SATA or IDE) as below:

Sata Vs IDE
Sata Vs IDE


[Edited on 27/11/11 by Daddylonglegs]





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Stott

posted on 27/11/11 at 12:17 PM Reply With Quote
Cheers, I'll get a cradle I think. Just started the laptop and the hdd is spinning so I'm optimistic lol

Thanks

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Bigheppy

posted on 27/11/11 at 12:30 PM Reply With Quote
This might sound daft but remove the dvd/cd drive. I had a similar problem and found that the mother board connector for the drive is faulty and as it boots it creates a conflict and freezes. Gotta be worth a try as its free, usually only 1 screw to remove.
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Stott

posted on 27/11/11 at 12:54 PM Reply With Quote
Thanks for the suggestion but that didn't work
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DixieTheKid

posted on 27/11/11 at 03:33 PM Reply With Quote
I have one here im not useing, is it SATA or IDE? Or you can have both, send me enough for a pint and p&p and ill post them up.






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Stott

posted on 27/11/11 at 05:57 PM Reply With Quote
I'll let you know how I get on soon as there are a couple of peoPle around here that I know that may have them, I managed to get one off my bro today but turns out it's IDE and I need Sata, still a few mates I can try though

Cheers for the offer v kind, like I said I might take you up on it

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DixieTheKid

posted on 27/11/11 at 06:28 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Stott
I'll let you know how I get on soon as there are a couple of peoPle around here that I know that may have them, I managed to get one off my bro today but turns out it's IDE and I need Sata, still a few mates I can try though

Cheers for the offer v kind, like I said I might take you up on it


Thats no problem. Your welcome.






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Stott

posted on 27/11/11 at 10:56 PM Reply With Quote
All sorted thanks for everyone's help.

Got a dock off a mate earlier and I can read the bit I wanted on my desktop pc. The whole c drive partition is gone?!?! But d drive is there with all my guff on.

Thanks again
Stott

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