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drose03
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_ 		28. December 2005 @ 09:24 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I left my hp media center pc m376n on while i went home for christmas for a few days and came back to find a black screen saying, "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key". That's really about all that the computer is capable of doing or saying right now other than getting into the BIOS settings. I think it's probably the hard drive has crashed. I don't have any recovery dvd's but have found you can order them off hp.com. I was wondering if these would do me any good or is all my data on the hard drive wasted? any response is appreciated! thanks
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Morph416
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_ 		28. December 2005 @ 10:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What did HP's support have to say?
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ddp
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_ 		28. December 2005 @ 11:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
if use recovery disks than will probably lose everything as hd is reconfigured as shipped. take the hd out & install as a slave on another computer with similar os to see if can see your info or not. is the hd making any strange noises?
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drose03
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_ 		28. December 2005 @ 12:54 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I am still waiting to hear a reply from HP's support. I don't even believe that the hard drive is making any kind of noise, let alone any strange noises at all. I will attempt to go hook the hard drive up as a slave and see if any information can be read and get back to you on that. thanks for your time.
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ddp
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_ 		28. December 2005 @ 13:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
no problem
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drose03
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_ 		28. December 2005 @ 14:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
the hard drive took a little longer to get out and i had a few distractions so i won't be able to connect it with another computer until later this evening or until morning due to the Big Red taking the field tonight! :) thanks for your help this far, and i look forward to getting back to this later!
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