From: Edwin A Camin (ecamin_at_advi.net)
Date: Sat Oct 07 2000 - 11:16:06 EDT
I recently had the same problem. (Not on my TP600) I booted up into DOS and
ran DOS Scandisk. It fixed several errors including a bad cluster. It
works great now.
Ed
To err is human, but to blame it on the computer is even more so.
http://ed-camin.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Bell" <rbell1_at_netscape.net>
To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 5:22 PM
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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