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Hard Drive Failing?
Name: Drew Date: May 4, 2003 at 23:38:18 Pacific OS: ME CPU/Ram: 700/196
Comment:
I have a Dell Laptop with a 10 gig hard drive...everytime I boot up the computer works for about twenty seconds and then locks up as though it is continously thinking. I have ran scan disk on it about a dozen times....each time it finds an error. Any suggestions, besides throwing it out.
Name: the hat74 Date: May 4, 2003 at 23:59:25 Pacific
Reply:
can you get it to restart in msdos without it still shutting down,if u can type scanreg/fix or scanreg/restore if theres anything wrong with the registry it can effect a lot of things try it and see what happens by the way what windows sys. are you working off..
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Response Number 2
Name: wawadave Date: May 5, 2003 at 00:54:22 Pacific
Summary: Don't get too nervous about the hard drive failing. If more bad sectors don't start developing after you get these bad ones marked, your hard drive will probably be just fine. Some computer manufactur...
Summary: Well...I was attempting to format one of my two hard drives. I had just finished reinstalling my Windows on my PC, and wanted to format my other drive. Windows was not allowing me to format the drive ...
Summary: There used to be an 8 GB hard drive limit imposed by some older BIOS. However, as you already have a 40 GB this is unlikely to be the case. There is a 64 GB limit in fdisk you should be aware that req...
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