Copying A Disk

[Karl Larsen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Pete Holsberg wrote:
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>> Jason Crain has written on 7/12/2008 4:04 PM:
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>>> Pete Holsberg wrote:
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>>>> Jason Crain has written on 7/12/2008 3:37 PM:
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>>>>> Is the hard drive making any noise when it turns on?
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>>>> Nope!
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>>> If it is not making at least a gentle humming noise, then it is not 
>>> spinning up.  
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>> I don't consider that noise. :-)
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>> It is definitely spinning up. See my posting on Srinrite's doings.
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>     Pete I think you said the laptop hard disk is a SADA type. Is that 
> correct?
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> Karl
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    Correct myself. It is SATA not SADA. And I see your using a SATA to 
USB device so that says yes it's a SATA hard drive.

    Now I have a SATA hard drive and am using it now. But I had trouble 
getting it to work. It turned out to be a tiny amount of dirt in the 
SATA plug on my motherboard. I do not care for the connectors used on 
SATA devices because they are perf-board edge connectors which can, and 
often do have trouble.

    So be sure your connectors are making good contact. That could in 
fact be what's wrong in the laptop. Be worth a try.

Karl


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