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Subject: Re: Dead Fan?? or Hardrive ?? MORE INFO

Author:
Don Boling

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Date Posted: 14:15:09 03/24/00 Fri
In reply to: Don Boling 's message, "Dead Fan?? or Hardrive ??" on 13:20:47 03/24/00 Fri

I should have said in the first post:

the laptop os a Vivante SE or something.. about 2 years old
purchased in July 98' ... not sure how I can tell which.

the hard drive is a 3.9 gig ...

and while booting , the drive sounds like it has gravel in it!! ...

Don

> Trent,
>
> I have been leaving my laptop on for weeks at a time
> for 2 years with no problem. The other day I noticed
> it was very hot and the harddrive started acting up.
>
> After letting it cool down and rebooting I was able to
> work again. Now it has gotten so bad the data on the
> drive was scrambled too bad to repair (NT NTFS) ... I
> decided to reload everything from scratch and used
> DELPART to remove the 2 partions , 1-NTFS 1-FAT ...
> leaving the non-Dos for suspend to disk...
> Now when I boot it does not even see the drive at all
> !!
>
> any help would be greatly appriciated...
>
> Don

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Dead Fan?? or Hardrive ?? MORE INFO	Larry Latson	20:21:06 03/24/00 Fri
Re: Dead Fan?? or Hardrive ?? MORE INFO -- Don Boling, 02:25:48 03/25/00 Sat