My friend dropped his laptop and know it wont go to windows screen. We did a test in the diagnostics screen. and it failed. So could it crash from being droped?
2007-10-20 16:43:59 · 7 answers · asked by Summer-off 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
here's the thing i was able to go into safe mode but now i cant. It will start up then go to the f10 screen to start windows normally when i do that it say "windows was unable to start up"
2007-10-20 16:56:52 · update #1
Umm mostly likely no it could be the motherboard or the cpu thats not responding.
2007-10-20 16:51:22 · answer #1 · answered by Gameboy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sure can; I suspect you're going to need a new drive, at LEAST.
Ok - since you didn't get any better answers: When a hard drive gets normal motions, it's no big deal. However, when there are sudden shocks like being dropped a few feet, it's more than most drives are engineered to take. The read head almost certainly came into contact with the surface of one or more of the disks; flying height of the head above the disk is VERY small, and a strong jolt causing it to come into contact with the surface of the drive is often all that's required to ruin the surface of the disk and/or the read head itself. That's always been the single biggest drawback to mobility in computers, and probably will be for a long time until we come up with something better and less-easily destroyed that will hold as much data as cheaply as a drive - and that probably won't be any time soon.
2007-10-20 23:52:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm afraid that it indeed can. However, with the potential damage taken from a dropped laptop, there's any number of fragile parts that may have been broken, in the harddrive, other parts of the laptop, or both.
As it is at this point a hardware problem, your likely best off brining it to professionalls. Hopefully your friend's data can be salvaged.
2007-10-20 23:49:19 · answer #3 · answered by kagato23 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A LOT of things can cause a Computer to "Crash..."- and dropping one isn't exactly going to make it any LESS likely... Tell whoever you take it to to fix it- that you dropped it, as it might help them with the diagnostics...
2007-10-20 23:55:13 · answer #4 · answered by Joseph, II 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A hard disk can get damaged if it moved abruptly while it is being used. So, if your laptop fell down, it could have crashed.
Try testing the hard disk on another laptop
2007-10-20 23:50:58 · answer #5 · answered by Violet hill 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dropping it can break any thing on it. so yeas it can break the hard drive. a laptop components are very fragile
2007-10-21 00:08:36 · answer #6 · answered by jacob c 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unlikely, but yes it can
2007-10-20 23:48:10 · answer #7 · answered by chewalter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋