lap top hard drive help

[techbabez]

ok so in his wisdom mr ? took out the harddrive in the laptop and formatted it before giving it back to me, i have only just got around to putting it back in the machine and there is an error, Smart failure dont know what he done to it, is it broken do i need to get an new hardrive and i also have no discs to out a working os on it.

any help appreciated.

[ray156]

1ST things 1ST

1.does the drive run when switch on.
2.is there any noise like,clicking/knocking.
3.in bios-does it show hard drive parameters-ie name,size etc.
4.is hard drive formatted and left that way.ie no O/S been put back in.

[nibblitz]

Smart Error means a total hard disk failure may be imminent, it could give up tomorrow, next week, or it could maybe go for another year, either way and if it was me, I would be getting a new hard disk.. If you want to continue using the hard disk you can turn off the Smart error checking in bios so you dont get nagged by the message..

No disks to reinstall your OS , ummmm, you'll either have to buy or download windows then... Or why not give Ubuntu a go, its free and really quite good...

[techbabez]

comes up smart failure predicted failure on hard disk 4, bios shows type of drive and size and i am sure formatted nothing left on it as he would not want me to be able to get info off drive

[techbabez]

tried looking for smart error thingy in bios cannot find it

[ray156]

1 thing i always have is an external sata case,any drives i get they go in that,for a good check before go in machine.if you can get hold of one,stick it in,and on another pc give it a check,get yourself an operating system as well.pretty much lost without one,if you can get an operating system on the drive,even short term,will give you more help than we can,in checking drive out,without touch or see,its like walking into a blacked out room.

[techbabez]

can post it to you if you want to look at it, as said ex wiped it dont know if he done anything else to it?

[techbabez]

i also have a hdd from a desktop comp i have not even attempted to look at yet, would be nice if data could be recovered from both :-)

[Bulld0g]

i also have a hdd from a desktop comp i have not even attempted to look at yet, would be nice if data could be recovered from both :-)

It can be