Hard Drive gone on laptop.

[Samphire]

Seems like my hard drive has died on my Acer Aspire 5732Z - it will not load windows at all in any mode, way shape or form googling seems to throw back hard drive.

So, people that are Essex based, do you know roughly how much it would cost to replace the H/D for me? in work so cannot phone round as they seem to be 08 .. lotsa money number.

 

[arad85]

When you say replace, what cost are you after - the HDD cost on it's own, HDD + someone to put it in for you, HDD + put it in + install Windows, HDD install + attempt data recovery from old drive.

Those are the in increasing cost, starting at around £60 for a new HDD....

 

[Samphire]

Price for someone to take it, replace it and put windows back onto it.

 

[arad85]

No idea what that's likely to be. A small computer repairer ould probably be your best bet. Just don't let them charge more than about £60 for the disk...

 

[Chabsy]

No idea what that's likely to be. A small computer repairer ould probably be your best bet. Just don't let them charge more than about £60 for the disk...

£60 for a 500gb disk + the labour and time to fit the disk and reinstall windows.

 

[Steep]

Have you tried the hidden restore partition? I think you press ALT + F10 on boot to access it. From there you might be able to restore your windows without replacing the drive (in case it's not actually faulty).

 

[Samphire]

Have you tried the hidden restore partition? I think you press ALT + F10 on boot to access it. From there you might be able to restore your windows without replacing the drive (in case it's not actually faulty).

I will try that when I get home