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November 10th, 2001, 08:01 AM
#1
Very weird hard drive problems
I just got a 2GB Toshiba hard drive for my handheld PC. It works great until I turn off my handheld or restart windows, then it says the disk is not formatted. If I wait a few hours for the drive to cool down and put it back in it detects it and works great.
When the drive actually does work, I can copy files from the handheld's storage memory or flash card to the hard drive with no problems, but if I try to copy from my desktop to the hard drive in the handheld directly over the network connection, I hear the disk spin up, then after a few seconds it says "A device attached to the system is not functioning".
Is my drive damaged? Would formating it in a laptop fix it or does this sound like a hardware problem?
The drive is ATA66, 4200RPM, 15ms seek time, 2GB (may not sound good, but for a hard drive the size of a credit card it's amazing!)
Thanks
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November 13th, 2001, 11:55 AM
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Most likely Your harddrive has serious problem -probably bad sectors on surface.And most likely they are "sector's ID not found" or (worst case) "command aborted" errors. These errors usually cause that weird behavior of hard drive...
Try to fix that harddrive using scandisk first...
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November 13th, 2001, 03:40 PM
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My drive has been working fine now for 4 days. Is it still possible the drive is damaged even though it's been working for 4 days?
Is there a program that could check the drive and the controller chips and everything to make sure it's not damaged at all?
Thanks
"[...] drug companies are killing far more Americans than all terrorists, murderers and criminals combined [...]" - NewsTarget.com
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November 14th, 2001, 10:17 AM
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