Re: HD problems
Zach wrote:
> It's a Toshiba ATA disk, MK6026 GAX, 60GB, another $60 sigh.
Hi Zach,
>From my limited experience, the Toshiba laptop hard drives are pretty bad.
They always go bad after 1 or 2 years. The problem is exactly as you
describe. No problems before and one fine day it decides to give
input/output errors and then a little grinding noise couple of times and
nothing works afterwards. You can recover the data by sending it to a
professional data recovery services but they are quite expensive (roughly
10 times the cost of hard drive). I hope you have backups :-)
If you had to buy a new laptop hard drive, go with some other brand. I was
told that the laptop hard drives in IBM thinkpad's are pretty robust. You
can probably search for their brand and purchase that.
hth
raju
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