From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 11:06:01 EST
MessageJudging from your symptoms, as we say in the trade:
the drive is kaput..
it has crapped out..
its history..
or
dead..
OTH,
IF you have been swapping it in and out, many times, the socket might be bad..
but 99% chance it is gone way south..
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Cordially, :-)
Bill Morrow
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----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas, Daniel J.
To: 'Thinkpad_at_Cs. Utk. Edu (thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu)'
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 8:19 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] TP600 - HD Gone South?
Yesterday my system started blue screening with "inaccessible boot device" every time windows tried to boot. I just did a re-install last night and at random the machine either boots fine, or prompts for a floppy disk to be inserted and for the user to press F1. I can't hear the hard disk spin up when this occurs. Has my disk gone to the big parts bin in the sky?
-Dan
Daniel J. Thomas
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