mookaloid
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| posted on 31/3/08 at 11:33 AM |
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laptop hard drives
I have had a dell CPx lappy which I have used for a couple of years just for around the house on the wireless network, also for playing around with
Linux - Mint, ubuntu etc. It's only a p3 650MHz but it's been fine for email and web surfing in the living room etc.
I have been running win2k on it on one hard drive and I bought a second hard drive and caddy for the alternative operating systems.
I picked it up on Saturday and it couldn't find the win2k hard drive - it had been playing up a bit and running slow so I guess the hard drive
had given up.
No problem I just put the other drive in and booted up Mint. then yesterday that won't boot up either - it was saying that the Hard disk had
errors I tried to install win2k but it wouldn't go past formatting the Hard drive.
What are the chances of 2 hard drives going t*ts up or is the whole thing sha**ed?
Cheers
mark
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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RichardK
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| posted on 31/3/08 at 11:41 AM |
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Wonder if the disk controller could be knackering drives, get a bios update if you can and we can try another harddrive in Sat if you want, I've
got a couple we could try.
R
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mookaloid
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| posted on 31/3/08 at 12:14 PM |
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Thanks mate I'll look into a bios update - although I think I did this a while back.
See you on Saturday 
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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