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| Thread ID: 105995 | 2009-12-21 09:49:00 | Is my hard drive OK... ?? | forrest44 (754) | Press F1 |
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| 841960 | 2009-12-21 09:49:00 | I've got a laptop with a 30gb Htachi Travelstar hard drive. Recently I took the laptop apart in order to look inside and remove dust/dandruff/etc. In the process I took out the hard drive. After reassembling I got a lot of errors on boot about missing files/folders and other filesystem errors (was running linux). I reinstalled linux and everything seemed to work OK. After this I installed Windows 98, which seemed to work fine as well. I did a thorough scan (checking the disk surface for errors) in scandisk which found no errors. Question is, is the hard drive OK? What would have caused the filesystem corruption when I pulled it out? ??? |
forrest44 (754) | ||
| 841961 | 2009-12-21 17:43:00 | Scan with Hitachi's HDD tool from their site | gary67 (56) | ||
| 841962 | 2009-12-21 19:44:00 | First step run chkdsk in safemode with /r /x switches Drive wasnt dropped? nothing that would cause static discharge while working on it? |
12steps (14778) | ||
| 841963 | 2009-12-21 20:46:00 | Hmm will have a look for the hitachi tool It wasn't dropped, but it did say on the cover not to press on it, maybe I pressed to hard on it? I was grounding myself every 5min or so by touching another computer chassis. And I was wearing cotton. And it was pretty humid, so I figure static discharge isn't the problem (if it was, wouldn't the drive have stopped working completely?) |
forrest44 (754) | ||
| 841964 | 2009-12-21 20:48:00 | well I cant say if your HHD is dying or not. BUT if you are having doubts than backup all your files regularly just in case. | ronyville (10611) | ||
| 841965 | 2009-12-21 23:38:00 | Did a scan with the hitachi Drive Fitness Test tool - no errors So I guess it's OK |
forrest44 (754) | ||
| 841966 | 2009-12-22 00:01:00 | Maybe, I'd still do a backup/image if it was me. | KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 841967 | 2009-12-22 01:53:00 | Yea, HDD Diag tests are right most of the time, but not always.. First step run chkdsk in safemode with /r /x switches AFAIK Win98 doesn't support /x ? |
Blam (54) | ||
| 841968 | 2009-12-22 03:07:00 | I assume the HDD was reconnected properly? Did you take the RAM out? Did you put it back in properly? Have you tried running Memtest? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 841969 | 2009-12-22 04:42:00 | HDD connection was OK, I even pulled it out and replugged it in but still the errors remained. I tried with RAM and without RAM (sodimm sockets). No difference. | forrest44 (754) | ||
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