Re: [Thinkpad] HD failure ?

First of all you can try FDISK to delete the partitions.
NEXT
Download the Drive Fitness Test from the IBM web site.
Run it
It will test the drive.
If the drive issues an error message, you can run ERASE from that floppy to
totally wipe the drive and start again.
It is about the most powerful hard drive tool available.
Note: all these are destructive, and you will need to do a restore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sylvestre Meininger" <sylme@free.fr>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 6:53 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] HD failure ?

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to fix a friend's HD, a 32gb 5400 rpm drive on a A21p.
> I've tried IBM's restore CD, but the restore program can't format the HD.
It
> can't even repartition it.
> I plugged the drive into my Thinkpad and tried Partition Magic, but it
> displays the whole HD as "BAD" and refuses to have anything to do with it.
I
> formated the three existing partitions on the HD (through Windows), to no
> avail.
> CHKDSK says the HD is fine, so does Windows (2k), but I can't find a way
to
> delete the 3 partitions and reformat the whole thing in order to start the
> restore process.
>
> Partition Magic displays this message : "Disk 2 (30524MB 3890c 255h
> 63s)appears to have partitions created using a different drive geometry
> (240h 63s). No partition manipulation should be made to this disk using
this
> product or the operating system's product. Delete all partitions and
create
> new partition under the new drive geometry"
>
> But PM refuses to do anything with the drive !
>
> Is the HD dead ? I have a feeling I'm missing something here.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> sylvestre
>
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