From: Rob Bell (rbell1_at_netscape.net)
Date: Sat Oct 07 2000 - 11:32:47 EDT
I put the drive in the UltraBay of my 770. The NT OS on the 770 can see the
D: drive (NTFS5) of the failing HD, but not the C: drive (FAT). I can see the
directory listing of D: and copy off some files perfectly, but some are just
plain unaccessible. Apparently there is a physical problem with some portions
of the disk platters or heads. I retrieved about 2/3 of the files I needed
and can probably live without the other ones.
In answer to your other question, I believe the drive in the 770 was genuine
IBM. That doesn't mean a lot to me though, because I've had about a dozen
different drives for various ThinkPads over the years, ranging from IBM to
Hitachi, to SigmaData to SimpleTechnology and others. Never before have I had
a HD failure that was more than a bad sector. And, being in the computer
consulting industry for 8 years and electrical engineering before that, I've
used my share of computers.
Thanks,
Rob
"David Ross" <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu> wrote:
> Can't you boot from a floppy, then try to use a file-recovery program
(e.g.,
> the one that ontrack.com offers)
> to recover the important files?
>
> > 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!
>
> The is what the "M" in "MTBF" represents.
>
> Was the drive in your 770 also a Hitachi like this one, or was it genuine
IBM?
>
> - David R.
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