Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
My mother's PC died recently and she went and bought a laptop to replace it. I've had the box and taken the hard drive out of it. I nipped into JC Computing and they tested the hard drive and told me it started spinning but locked up the machine when trying to boot but that didn't tell me if the hard drive is completely knackered or just software corruption?
Would a complete erase and reformat cure the drive?
Mum isn't bothered about getting any data off the hard drive as she only had a few documents on it. I was hoping I could use the hard drive in an enclosure with my Mac but, being a bit tight, I don't want to buy an enclosure in case the drive is knackered. I know you can buy really cheap enclosures but they are so ugly! And I don't really want to spend money twice.
Anyone got any ideas?
Would a complete erase and reformat cure the drive?
Mum isn't bothered about getting any data off the hard drive as she only had a few documents on it. I was hoping I could use the hard drive in an enclosure with my Mac but, being a bit tight, I don't want to buy an enclosure in case the drive is knackered. I know you can buy really cheap enclosures but they are so ugly! And I don't really want to spend money twice.
Anyone got any ideas?