10-09-2014, 11:20 AM
My laptop still runs Windows 7 (please, don't tell anybody 
). I don't remember how long it's been since I accessed it but probably within the past couple of months. I can try plugging it in to that tonight. It never had any OS. It was always data only (movies I copied from my DVDs/VHS tapes...they're legit). I wanted to make everything digital to save space. I had hundreds if not thousands of movies in various formats. Walls and walls of movies, full seasons of TV shows on DVD, etc. I copied everything to HDDs then gave most of the movies away. I think there are/were about 100 movies on that HDD. I'd hate to think I've lost them all. If it's a mechanical issue, I'll see if I can find another identical HDD somewhere and try to steal its circuit board although I can hear/feel it spin up. This computer shows that it's physically there so I'm not really sure what I'd have to do in Windows to "fix" it. Any thoughts on that? I'll read your link this evening (WAY past my bedtime already).
). I don't remember how long it's been since I accessed it but probably within the past couple of months. I can try plugging it in to that tonight. It never had any OS. It was always data only (movies I copied from my DVDs/VHS tapes...they're legit). I wanted to make everything digital to save space. I had hundreds if not thousands of movies in various formats. Walls and walls of movies, full seasons of TV shows on DVD, etc. I copied everything to HDDs then gave most of the movies away. I think there are/were about 100 movies on that HDD. I'd hate to think I've lost them all. If it's a mechanical issue, I'll see if I can find another identical HDD somewhere and try to steal its circuit board although I can hear/feel it spin up. This computer shows that it's physically there so I'm not really sure what I'd have to do in Windows to "fix" it. Any thoughts on that? I'll read your link this evening (WAY past my bedtime already).