Re: Steve - Hardware Question

[Kara Pritchard <kara@luci.org>]

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, John Wolgamot wrote:

> It worked well but I suspect the hard drive is faulty now. I can't tell
> for sure and was wondering if you had an extra lying around that you
> could bring to the meeting so I could pop it in as a test to see if that
> cures the problem.

No we don't.  But we are ordering one for someone else today. 

What are your symptoms?  Do you get BIOS messages when you try to boot?  
If not, it's not your HDD.  If you do, it probably is your HDD.  The 
laptop I diagnosed over the weekend just gets a blinking _ and makes bad 
noise.  If I boot it off CD with a RH 8 CD it looks fine.  If I look at 
the BIOS, it only reports a 700MB disk (it's a 6GB).  If you boot off a 
WinCD and try to DIR hda it locks up trying to read the directory list 
sizes.  

> If I could pop a hard drive in it and to salvage it, then Rita could use
> it as a word processor in the bedroom.

Find out what form factor your HDD is, and I can check prices for you.  If 
you're going to waste some money, might as well waste it on something you 
can resell :)

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