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

Really sounds like bad memory to me, but that could have corrupted the hard
drive,
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Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 1:38 PM
Subject: RE: Re: [Thinkpad] Can't copy some files from C: (mounted as USB
externalelsewhere)

> Thanks Bruce, I didn't think there should be anything special about the
folder once it's drive N:, except perhaps read-only or something (but not
read-not!).
>
> The original symptom that led to the call to IBM was that the screen is
locking up shortly after start-up, in a couple of cases it went blank, in
one it went white with some vertical blue lines, and in one case I got BSOD
and an error at ati2[something] driver (I wrote it down but don't have in
front of me). Thus my conclusion it was the screen/driver.
>
> I'm copying what I can, though pretty much all my data is below the folder
that's locked. :(
>
> =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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