Hi Guys Big problem with my hard drive. I have an error code 1000-0146 doing a Google search on this code shows that Im in big trouble. I took my laptop to my I.T. department at work who are pretty good. They removed the hard drive and tried to access it from another PC. The good news is the drive is spinning. The worst news of all is the PC wont recognise it. Well we gave it about five mins and nothing came up. I would have thought by now it should have. I really need to get some email address from the hard drive and some holiday pics. I kept thinking I need to do a back up but tomorrow always seemed more appropriate. Do the back up now! Is what I should have done. So the question is Im going to build the laptop back up with a new hard drive. Once this is done buy the wire thing that connects my old one to the new one. What else do I need to be able to get into the drive. The I.T. guy said he would look at it for me but I dont want him or any one else going through my files. I have a few bank account passwords on there and also all my sites passwords and stuff. I need to get access to this. Plus my first holiday away with the girlfriend would be nice. So what are the steps an idiot needs to take to access the files? Thanks James
I had a similar problem my PC wouldn't recognise the hard drive it powers up but is not recognised. i took it to some IT "experts" who said I needed a new hard drive but when I put a new one in it still wasn't recognised. They said it could be the IDE channel that failed and trashed the hard drive so I'd suggest you try it with something before you buy a new hard drive as it might be more than just the drive. It often seems to me they just put new bits in and see if it works rather than testing properly if it doesn't then they look at what might be next on the list. I know this doesn't help solve the problem but I just thought I'd warn you before you go wasting your money. Paul