The hard drive errors came back - CHKDSK ran without me asking it to, then boot
failure. I removed the HD & connected it as a USB storage device on
my laptop, but I cannot access the files. Says disk not formatted. I
had moved everything but my pictures.
I got a new 1 TB hard drive at Best Buy & restored the Dell
computer from the back-up. The restore was successful, but I ran into a
problem with HDD size. The old hard drive was 150 GB & the new HD
was 1 TB - only the 150 GB was accessible. I followed the directions but
was unable to increase the size of the partition. Problem solved - there was an extra unused
partition that I had to delete. Dell E-510 restored with 1 TB hard
drive. I can try to reformat the old HDD, but I think it is toast.
Hard drive failure is not fun, but it was a challenge solving this problem.
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