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norris58

Cant connect to AOL

I took the hard drive out of my computer and put it in another. This computer had (2) hard drives. After installing my hard drve in the other computer I cut it on and everything works fine except when I try to go online I cant get connected!!! It keeps saying the connection is busy or invalid!!! Can you tell me how to correct this problem????

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switched hard drive, no aol connection

Posted 2009-09-11T16:56:54Z
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Listen to your hard drive. If you hear clicking or whizzing sounds chances are a moving piece is either broken or out of place a classic sign of a mechanical problem.

If you have a spare pc take the hard drive out of that pc and swap it with the broken one to confirm.

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Hard drives fail due to electrical failures too. If you don't hear your hard drive spinning when you turn it on or can't get it to recognize the disk or load your Operating system, most likely its an electrical problem.

Electrical failures are recoverable however they are pricey. Depending on how important the data is you can google search data recovery and almost a million companies that specialize in it.
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Firmware corruption is another type of hard drive problem. Firmware is an embedded chip within the hard drive case containing codes for controlling the disk. If the instructions within the firmware become damaged or corrupt, the drive will fail.

Usually you will hear a spinning disk when the PC is turned on followed by a non-recognized disk or a system hang during boot up.
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Last but not least my favorite type of hard drive failure is a logical hard drive failure. LOL

These are truly a pain because the hard drive is physically fine however its the information that you have to track down that is causing the problem. We all know logical errors because they cause disk errors, slow performance, strange computer errors and file corruption.

Usually when you have inherited an virus or worm or Trojan this is where they hide in the logical hard drive failure. Unless the data is super important don't even waste your time.