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2010-07-07 08:58:00 |
So today I had time to have another look at the laptop, reset the bios to default - no change, set it to boot off DVD/CD and booted into Damn Small Linux, didn't have a lot of time but couldn't find any HDD, wouldn't boot into ERD Commander, just spent ages doing nothing, maybe disk was faulty, used Ultimate Boot Disk and ran Seagate Disk Tools, fast test found nothing wrong, long test found "Read Scan Failed 99 errors", booted into Partition Magic to check for hidden partition and was informed that the HDD was faulty because Basic Test failed.
HDD is/was Toshiba MK4025GAS - KA100A 40 Gig Generic PCI ATA. |
zqwerty (97) |