Re: [Thinkpad] Can't copy some files from C: (mounted as USB externalelsewhere)

When I google "Drive Fitness Test", I get links to hitachigst.com and to IBM (the latter to download v3.01). But following the IBM link eventually takes me to Lenovo and no sign of DFT.

Softpedia (also suggested by google) offers IBM's v4.07 which creates a bootable floppy (of course my T41p doesn't have a floppy) and points to a CD images at hitachigst.com. Is it the latter I should be using? Presumably the CD is bootable.

I don't have a recovery CD (I don't think), Lenovo suggests making one with R&R but I suspect that won't be successful if I'm still locking up. :( How much do they charge for recovery CDs?

Thanks!
=aw

>Access should not be denied if used as an external drive, as it is not part
>of the operating system. You may have corrupted files, or a bad hard drive.
>I suggest you save what you can and try a complete wipe and re-install
>before you send it in. I would normally suspect bad memory, but in this
>case, the hard drive is not acting properly in another machine, so I think
>you need to focus on the hard drive, either bad or corrupted.
>Download and run the drive fitness test, that may be of some help.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <awebber@wwwebbers.com>
>To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:17 PM
>Subject: [Thinkpad] Can't copy some files from C: (mounted as USB
>externalelsewhere)
>
>
>> My T41p is acting up. It's either a hardware problem with the screen or a
>software problem with a video driver. Before they'll service it, IBM wants
>me to update all the drivers.
>>
>> That's reasonable enough, but since the symptom is locking up a minute or
>two after boot (sometimes sooner) even in Safe Mode (well, it happened the
>one time I tried it in Safe Mode, apart from the dozen or so with a normal
>boot), I want to back up my files first.
>>
>> Shouldn't be too hard, I took the internal drive (whatever IBM offered as
>a 60Gb, 7200RPM) out and hooked it up to a USB port on a desktop machine.
>The latter recognized it right away.
>>
>> The problem is that I can copy many files from drive N: (my notebook's C:
>drive) but not all, including N:\Documents and Settings\Andrew (!) for which
>I get the message that it "...is not accessible. Access is denied.".
>>
>> Until a month ago I had most of my data in C:\DATA (holdover from the old
>days) and only recently moved it under "My Documents". :(
>>
>> Why would the folder be inaccessible? I created an account on this desktop
>machine with the name "Andrew" and the same password, to no avail. Is it
>likely because the notebook has been shutting down abnormally? If I can get
>it to stay up long enough to shut down, am I likely to have access to this
>folder? Or is there something more insidious going on?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> =aw
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Received on Fri Jan 19 14:30:16 2007