DemonElf Posted November 19, 2014 Member ID: 2691 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 170 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 155 Achievement Points: 1459 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 21, 2017 Birthday: 04/18/1991 Share Posted November 19, 2014 I swear, I'm never Ever buying another DELL, or Samsung related products!!!! For one never got a timely answer on service. Two and mainly the reason for no more Samsung products , I shut the lid on my laptop which caused my hard drive to seize. I spent 2 days trying to recover the data off the old HDD and just now got win8 on the new HDD. Was the worse night Ive ever had, go to shut the lid on my laptop to watch Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D and then start hearing a weird beeping-kinda noise and a frozen screen. No BSOD just froze where it was at. Reboot the laptop, "Media Failure, No Media Connected, Media Check Failed and No Bootable medium found". So currently Im pretty upset. Still haven't had any luck in recovering my old data by using a external hookup. I opened the old drive to see whats causing the drive to stick. All I've noticed is the Read/Write arm goes from the parked position to on the disk and gets stuck. Any have any luck in recovering from this issue to where they save all their data? YACCster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sitting-Duc Posted November 19, 2014 Member ID: 561 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 84 Topic Count: 502 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 5334 Content Per Day: 1.01 Reputation: 4610 Achievement Points: 41339 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 29 Joined: 10/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 22 hours ago Birthday: 04/06/1992 Device: Windows Share Posted November 19, 2014 If you have opened the drive it is dud. They are put together in dust free environments as a dust particle in the wrong place will stop it working. The drive was most likely not samsung so not sure why they are getting the blame for that. Other than that sucks it happened, hope you had backups. mouselad, hxtr, Sonovabich and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DemonElf Posted November 19, 2014 Member ID: 2691 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 170 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 155 Achievement Points: 1459 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 21, 2017 Birthday: 04/18/1991 Author Share Posted November 19, 2014 I blame Samsung for all the products I've bought with their logo has all ended in malfunction. The data I lost was some college documents and C++ coding homework I was working on for a big project. Luckily my class mate had the same copy for Visual Studio. Im now fighting the new Hard drive that crashed in the middle of installing DELL drivers and caused the OS (Win8) to lock up and caused issues accessing the drive. The OS just tries to load and then displays the Win8 error of 000021a, Reboots and tries to use the auto repair but that gets stuck and never does anything after that. I then did a full out format on the drive too erase all data off and try a fresh install of 8 but didnt work. Now running the reset PC function. If this doesnt work Im installing 7 and screw 8. Ill up to 10 after I play with it a bit in VirtualBox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hxtr Posted November 19, 2014 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.11 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 3.17 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129713 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Device: Windows Share Posted November 19, 2014 (edited) I swear, I'm never Ever buying another DELL, or Samsung related products!!!! For one never got a timely answer on service. Two and mainly the reason for no more Samsung products , I shut the lid on my laptop which caused my hard drive to seize. I spent 2 days trying to recover the data off the old HDD and just now got win8 on the new HDD. Was the worse night Ive ever had, go to shut the lid on my laptop to watch Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D and then start hearing a weird beeping-kinda noise and a frozen screen. No BSOD just froze where it was at. Reboot the laptop, "Media Failure, No Media Connected, Media Check Failed and No Bootable medium found". So currently Im pretty upset. Still haven't had any luck in recovering my old data by using a external hookup. I opened the old drive to see whats causing the drive to stick. All I've noticed is the Read/Write arm goes from the parked position to on the disk and gets stuck. Any have any luck in recovering from this issue to where they save all their data? I can give you a tool that will image your installation and all data at that time so next time at least your OS is backed up. Always expect your hard drive to fail though. It is the one component that will fail guaranteed some day and nobody know when. But you can help it. Edited November 19, 2014 by hxtr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7Toes Posted November 19, 2014 Member ID: 87 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 57 Topic Count: 98 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 3789 Content Per Day: 0.71 Reputation: 3589 Achievement Points: 27249 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 18, 2022 Birthday: 04/02/1871 Share Posted November 19, 2014 the main mistake and hopefully your last is one thing DELL.i would not wish a dell on my worst enemy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
DemonElf Posted November 19, 2014 Member ID: 2691 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 170 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 155 Achievement Points: 1459 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 21, 2017 Birthday: 04/18/1991 Author Share Posted November 19, 2014 @@7toes_ky unfortunately i had only dell to choose from at the college with financial aid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sammy Posted November 19, 2014 Member ID: 3036 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 31 Topic Count: 219 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 9419 Content Per Day: 2.08 Reputation: 7515 Achievement Points: 62539 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 21 Joined: 11/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 30, 2023 Birthday: 04/26/2008 Device: Windows Share Posted November 19, 2014 Laptops should be secondary computers. Always have a PC as the primary and back up the contents of the laptop once a week onto it. Not that laptops are inherently bad. Only that I cannot easily get into it and replace or upgrade failing parts. Otherwise people are beholden to whoever made it to fix it. eidolonFIRE and FreakAnso 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
eidolonFIRE Posted November 20, 2014 Member ID: 2759 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 17 Topic Count: 199 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3496 Content Per Day: 0.76 Reputation: 3021 Achievement Points: 26464 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 3 Joined: 08/22/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 16, 2017 Birthday: 07/27/1990 Share Posted November 20, 2014 Laptops should be secondary computers. Always have a PC as the primary and back up the contents of the laptop once a week onto it. Not that laptops are inherently bad. Only that I cannot easily get into it and replace or upgrade failing parts. Otherwise people are beholden to whoever made it to fix it. I totally agree! PC is the way to go. It's repairable and generally more reliable. Laptops are history. They're only holding on in the company setting because being portable is more important. It's also way easier for IT. Also, if you have a history of HDD's going bad... I would strongly suggest you get an external drive that auto backs up, or have a RAID setup in a PC. In the last year of my college experience, I ditched the shitting dell laptop and went with a samsung tablet (note model with pen). It worked well. I kept all my data in the cloud and I could easily remote to my desktop back home if I needed to program or do anything crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonElf Posted November 22, 2014 Member ID: 2691 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 170 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 155 Achievement Points: 1459 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 21, 2017 Birthday: 04/18/1991 Author Share Posted November 22, 2014 Well the old drive is shot. No recovery possible. The magnetic head sheared the micro read portion off and scratched the disk. The new drive has managed to lock a partition to where 7 can access it. Today my mother has surprised me by buying a new laptop. Its another dell but little faster cpu, 4gb ram, 1tb hdd and such. Will post specs later after its running. Kinda teared up when she did that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DemonElf Posted November 23, 2014 Member ID: 2691 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 11 Topic Count: 42 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 170 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 155 Achievement Points: 1459 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 07/25/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 21, 2017 Birthday: 04/18/1991 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 Dell inspiron 15 3542. Intel i3 4th gen dual core 1.90, 1.90 ghz. Sd card reader, dvdrw, 15.6" wlcd screen, black color, 1tb hdd, 4 3.0 USB ports, hdmi hookup. And intel hd graphics chip set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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