Is It Time?? R.I.P. Lifebook

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Is it time for me to bury my trusty Fujitsu Lifebook C350?

It has served me very well, however the other night it froze during creation
of a Word Document.

In order to unfreeze and reboot, I had to turn off power. Upon rebooting
the machine insisted on going to Scandisk as Windows had not been shut down
properly.

At 32% it recognized a bad cluster and tried to move on but just sat there.

I tried to boot from Start Up disk, at the a: prompt I entered
scandisk/all/surface and at 25% it recognized a bad cluster and so I just
left it run overnight.

The laptop is at my girlfriends house so I don't know what the status is
right now (8am CST).

Is there anything else I can do to restart this machine AND not lose data?

I'm already shopping for a good used IBM Thinkpad

Thank You
 
Hello
Is it time for me to bury my trusty Fujitsu Lifebook C350?

It has served me very well, however the other night it
froze during creation of a Word Document.

In order to unfreeze and reboot, I had to turn off power.
Upon rebooting the machine insisted on going to Scandisk as
Windows had not been shut down properly.

At 32% it recognized a bad cluster and tried to move on
but just sat there.

I tried to boot from Start Up disk, at the a: prompt I
entered scandisk/all/surface and at 25% it recognized a
bad cluster and so I just left it run overnight.

The laptop is at my girlfriends house so I don't know what
the status is right now (8am CST).

Is there anything else I can do to restart this machine AND
not lose data?

I'm already shopping for a good used IBM Thinkpad

Thank You
Click to expand...

It just sounds like your hard drive died. You could just get
a new HD instead of a whole new laptop, but that's up to you.
I don't know about recovering data, though. I would take the
HD out of the Lifebook and put it in an external USB2/FireWire
enclosure (check out newegg.com for good deals). If if mounts
on another PC you might be able to pull files from it. Next
time remember to back up important files.
 
It just sounds like your hard drive died. You could just get
a new HD instead of a whole new laptop, but that's up to you.
I don't know about recovering data, though. I would take the
HD out of the Lifebook and put it in an external USB2/FireWire
enclosure (check out newegg.com for good deals). If if mounts
on another PC you might be able to pull files from it. Next
time remember to back up important files.
Click to expand...

I agree, it sounds like just the drive, if the rest of the laptop is in
good condition it would be better to replace the moving parts (like the
HDD, fan(s), with new ones rather than buying another used laptop with
those parts already worn (unless of course more performance or other
features are desired).

A laptop drive adapter (44 pin to 40 pin) could be used to read off the
files on a desktop system, would be quite a bit cheaper than the external
enclosure... usually about $4-10, for example:
http://66.216.68.88/details.htm?productid=4A-1097
 
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