Netbook took a dive onto hardwood floor

Discussion in 'Laptop Hardware' started by TheBob, Jan 12, 2009.

  1. TheBob

    TheBob

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    So I dropped my aspire one. It cut off right as it fell. I booted it back up and it made the classic hard drive scratch sound. I can still boot into the bios and everything. So I was wondering if I get a big SD card could I boot from that or should I crack it open and install an new hard drive.
     
    TheBob, Jan 12, 2009
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    You can't boot from an SD card in the SD card slot. You can, however, boot from a USB flash drive (including an SD card in a USB adapter)
     
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    Yeah I figured that out. :/ I have it running DSL linux off of a 1GB flash drive right now.
     
    TheBob, Jan 14, 2009
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