History:
I bought a Dell Inspiron 8500 in November 2003 with a 2 yr warranty.
In july, the hard disk started giving errors ... and acting VERY VERY weirdly.
Sometimes it would get detected, otherwise not. It would give the "Primary Hard Disk Fail" message.
One fine day my laptop absolutely stopped booting... gave the BSOD, then after a few reboots gave the "Primary Hard Disk Fail" message. Tried the hard disk in a IBM T41, same error.
Connected it to a desktop PC, but the BIOS failed to recognize the HDD.
It then magically came to life... and started working... Only problem was, I get the BSOD in windows XP twice a DAY now. Unmountable_boot_volume. Chkdsk /r doesnt even check the disk.
A few reboots later, it works as if new.
I have tried deleting the partitions, secure erasing and then re partitioning. Done this almost 4 times in the last 1 month.
Present Problem:
The BSOD's continue, but the hard disk is error free. Tried the surface scan and 0 errors?
Whats wrong with the HDD? The NTFS partition gets corrupted ever 2nd boot, and gets repaired automatically!!
A Dell CSR told me since the HDD passes all diagnostic tests, its fine and they wont replace it. What do i do? simply break the HDD (In a way that they dont find out i did) and demand a new one?
I bought a Dell Inspiron 8500 in November 2003 with a 2 yr warranty.
In july, the hard disk started giving errors ... and acting VERY VERY weirdly.
Sometimes it would get detected, otherwise not. It would give the "Primary Hard Disk Fail" message.
One fine day my laptop absolutely stopped booting... gave the BSOD, then after a few reboots gave the "Primary Hard Disk Fail" message. Tried the hard disk in a IBM T41, same error.
Connected it to a desktop PC, but the BIOS failed to recognize the HDD.
It then magically came to life... and started working... Only problem was, I get the BSOD in windows XP twice a DAY now. Unmountable_boot_volume. Chkdsk /r doesnt even check the disk.
A few reboots later, it works as if new.
I have tried deleting the partitions, secure erasing and then re partitioning. Done this almost 4 times in the last 1 month.
Present Problem:
The BSOD's continue, but the hard disk is error free. Tried the surface scan and 0 errors?
Whats wrong with the HDD? The NTFS partition gets corrupted ever 2nd boot, and gets repaired automatically!!
A Dell CSR told me since the HDD passes all diagnostic tests, its fine and they wont replace it. What do i do? simply break the HDD (In a way that they dont find out i did) and demand a new one?
