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Name: GANESAN KRISHNASWAMY Date: April 17, 2007 at 13:21:29 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: N/A Product: Dell 600
Comment:
When I turned on one of our laptop I get a message"Primary harddrive not found. Exiting Broadcom-No boot device available." Further there is a tap tap tap sound. How to set this right. Thanks. Ganesan Krishnaswamy
Name: taffyboy Date: April 17, 2007 at 13:29:44 Pacific
Reply:
OK it looks like your HDD has failed. I belive its the heads that cause this. Some say to put it in the frezer but hay! Have you got documents you need on there? When I say need I mean really really need?
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Response Number 2
Name: mosaddique Date: April 17, 2007 at 13:43:38 Pacific
Reply:
taffboy is spot on.
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