Recent content by cynicaldev

Thank you for the replies. It's not under warranty, in fact it's couple of years old. This is an Alienware m14x R1, but after all these years I never had any issues with it other than battery failure. It could be possible that it's caused by the fan because I haven't cleaned the vents in a...

I haven't' been using my laptop much but when I turned it on yesterday, there was some sort of a clicking sound coming from the left side of the laptop, where the hard drive is located. It only makes the sound during boot. Initially, I ran the quick S.M.A.R.T test using "diskdrive get status" in...

This is so frustrating. If I were to do that I'm gonna have to download Ubuntu as well.

This is a fairly new hard drive with over 500 gb free space. Windows does not seem to recognize it although, It shows up under device and printers. But it's absent in disk management. The external lights are constantly flashing but in a systematic manner it stops blinking and stay on for a while...

Thanks for the answers guys...I'm gonna see If I can copy all the important files and if cannot i'm just gonna keep it till I get over sadness :P then I could throw it away lol

According to HD tune the hard disk is filled with bad sectors. Is there anyway to get the data off with that many bad sectors? I used Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier, but it works only with some files.

The micro USB port is right on the hard drive itself and there's 6 pins, unlike my HDD player. Here's a photo I found in internet. http://i.stack.imgur.com/d0cqS.jpg Edit: I have a WD elements 1Tb usb 3.0

So far I tried changing the cable and on other PC's but same problem. As for CHKDSK it failed at stage 2 with the error "A snapshot error occured while scanning this drive." Btw, I could no longer open the hard drive. When I plug the hard drive it doesn't shows the name name of the disk and...