From: Greg Langham (greg_at_psnet.net)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 17:58:22 EDT
Rob,
The only piece of immediate help I can think of is the possible use of the
"Recovery Console" in Windows 2000.
For specifics, see the following MS knowledge base article:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q229/7/16.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=g
n&FR=0
To summarize what it says, you boot from the W2K CD to a command prompt that
can access NTFS, FAT, and FAT32 partitions.
To start the Recovery Console, boot from the W2K CD. At the "Welcome to
Setup" screen, press F10, or press R to Repair, then C to start the Recovery
Console.
The nice thing about it is that all of the available commands are built into
the interpreter, so nothing on your hard disk is required for operation.
What I have done in the past is use the recovery console to "get alive",
then go pick the files I want to copy and hope that the drive will cooperate
long enough to let me copy the files I need to a floppy.
Hope this helps,
Greg
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Bell [mailto:rbell1_at_netscape.net]
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 4:22 PM
To: ThinkPad Mailing List
Subject: 600X HD Gone South
Help!
The hard drive (Hitachi 12GB) on my 600X seems to have gone south. The
laptop
was sitting on my desk purring along all day (not really being used), and
when
I went to shut it down it made a strange chit-chit-chit noise each time it
tried to access the drive. Of course, every app crashed and the system
finally crashed too. When I try to boot I can get a little ways into the
Windows 2000 boot process (the first black screen with the white bar at the
bottom), then Win2K craps out with an error that it can't access a file
(different every time). There is no BIOS test option to run any
diagnostics.
I called IBM support and they would be willing to ship a replacement if they
had one, but they're on backorder. I'm not really so concerned about
getting
my system back up and running quickly (it's my secondary), but I certainly
need some files off the drive. My latest backup is about 3 weeks old, so
I've
got a bunch of things, but there's always those last few documents and
e-mails
that I still need. Anyone have ideas to help me access the drive??
I believe I can install it in the UltraBay of my old 770 which I thankfully
haven't given back to my company yet. With the way the disk acted though, I
don't think I'll be able to read any files long enough to copy them off.
Bah! Had a 770 for almost three years with NO PROBLEMS and now I've had the
600X for a month and it dies! ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!
Thanks for any ideas...
Rob
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