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

As Bruce noted, those original and subsequent symptoms could certainly
be due to a failing hard drive. However, it could also be the external
USB drive connector that is causing drive/access problems. I recently
toasted a laptop harddrive by hooking it up to an external USB enclosure
with a single USB connector (instead of the higher-powered dual
connector). I thought it would just fail to spin up if it didn't have
enough power, but no, it trashed the drive. Stupid me.

Rob

awebber@wwwebbers.com wrote:

> 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!).
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> 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.
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> I'm copying what I can, though pretty much all my data is below the folder that's locked. :(
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> =aw
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>>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)
>>
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>>>My T41p is acting up. It's either a hardware problem with the screen or a
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>>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
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>>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
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>>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:
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>>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
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>>days) and only recently moved it under "My Documents". :(
>>
>>>Why would the folder be inaccessible? I created an account on this desktop
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>>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 16:26:23 2007