-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/07 20:12, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: [snip] > The laptop used to work fine (no errors in the log files, no grinding > noises). One fine day when it was moved from one place to another and then > it stopped booting. The BIOS does not even recognize the hard drive. The > hard drive does not spin. I believe that the problem could be a bad > controller or a bad motor. So it needs to be taken into a clean room to get > the data out.
That just doesn't sound right. If there was a physical error, you should have heard it coming. Even a slight whine. Maybe during the move some cable got jostled, or a bit of dirt shorted something out. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF0T6ES9HxQb37XmcRAuh3AKDWHU9Izbt+LK3FY0TNb+/JVuh7kQCePFxc 6UP+pqVjXC1lzy9vZZyNfG0= =p+oc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]