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11-30-2005, 02:27 PM
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Old HD boot error
Well I havent been around PCMECH in almost a month due to alot of robotics stuff and HW but my HD on my laptop has messed up and I need some help on it,
When I try to boot to win98 my laptop does its normal booting thing then the HD starts making a rythmic sound almost identical to the one it makes when it is defraing but it wont continue in boot at all. I tried booting to safemode but that ddnt work ame problem, then i was able to boot to safemode comand prompt only, when i typed in dir in the windows folder i got an error stating that the device could not be read from abort/ignore/retry(something like that) any advice, should i format the HD and reinstall windows? or is the HD fried Thanks, Cuog |
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11-30-2005, 02:36 PM
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Sounds like the hard drive is going. What brand/model is it? I would recommend going to the drive manufacturer's website and downloading their diagnostic tools to see if the drive really is bad.
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12-01-2005, 08:16 PM
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Its a toshiba 1.34 gig HD for computer # 6 in my sig so with its age its likely to just be dead but i will look for the diag just in case
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12-02-2005, 10:09 AM
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There are no Toshiba diags available - I use the Hitachi DFT to test Toshibas. It can test it but not repair or zero it. You can zero it with DBAN.
http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm http://dban.sourceforge.net/ |
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