Re: [Thinkpad] Flaky Thinkpad hard drive

be sure to clone the flaky drive to the spare..

run DFT on the flaky drive.. perhaps DFT will show up a
fault and an error code..

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Cordially,
Bill Morrow
(from NetFinity Server)
web page: http://www.thinkpads.com
bill@thinkpads.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitchell Yee" <mitchell_yee@yahoo.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:29 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Flaky Thinkpad hard drive

> I've got a T30 with a travelstar 40 Gb drive. It's
> running Win2K since this is my corporate machine.
> Every two weeks or so, the hard drive will fail to
> boot the TPad. Fortunately, it's fixable by plugging
> the drive into a ultrabay carrier and using another
> bootable drive to run chkdsk to fix it. This problem
> is occuring on a fairly frequent basis - perhaps
> biweekly or so, more when I'm travelling. This
> problem has been occuring for the last 4 or 5 months
> or so and has not increased in frequency of occurence.
> It's suggestive that this problem occurs more often
> when I'm travelling, but it's not definitive.
>
> Anyone care to venture a guess as to whether this a
> simple re-image of the hard drive will fix this or is
> this drive fated for the dumpster? I am loathe to run
> a re-image since it took so bloody long for my corp IT
> people to get my configuration just right. On the
> other hand, is this perhaps a physical problem on the
> drive?
>
> So far, the fix to this annoying problem has been to
> carry a second hard drive in my T30. Note that the
> second hard drive (an newer Travelstar) has never had
> any of the problems that the original travelstar has
> been experiencing, even with the bumps and jolts of
> airport security.
>
> Thanks,
> Mitchell
>
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