Posts by WolfmoonCT

Sager called, and I can ship just the HDD if I want to, but they refuse to xship a drive... I guess we'll see what happens.

Actually I can buy 60gig 5400 rpm toshiba drive with 3 year warranty off newegg.com for $169... so asking about a 40gig 5400rpm the price is not nearly $300.. As a company, they should see that it's cheaper for both them and the...

If it was a HDD controller problem, then it would have affected the other HDD too. This drive has done the same thing on both primary and secondary conrtollers, and a driver does not cause the drive to make a physical grinding noise.. ...

Hi Kristopher, it looks like the hard drive has failed. We need to check the driver for you. Your RMA# is 11173603. Please pack the computer with their original shipping box if possible, or to be placed inside the carrying bag...

I sumitted the RMA including the windows error the noise part, so hopefully the wont' give me any trouble... Other than this, the laptop has run like a dream. Does everything I ask it to.

Here I am again at work... The drive that was affected, which is now the secondary, which did take a full format, and was able to defrag it after loading it, is now pooched again... I'm sitting here and listening to it do a constant...

I did a full format of it, and chkdsk and it came up clean... what I'm more worried about, is why did it not show up in the BIOS? even a bad MBR or partition would not cause it not show up in the BIOS... As for the backup, I do...

What i'm thinking about it being the main drive, is that the main drive still has to use the pagefile which was located on the main drive.... so during the copying, it has to be using the main drive all the time because of the pagefile...

Everything seems to be running ok right now... the bad drive seems to be working, but since it's secondary now it's also not really being used, so i doubt it's getting warm. When it is being accessed, to test it, it still has a strange...

Well, the patient made it through the surgery, and on to ICU.. so far, what I did was put the secondary drive into the main drive bay, and moved the main to the secondary. I'm installing XP now, and all seems to be running fine. I have...