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Downtime For Me - Sorry
SirPeale:
Just a quick apology for anyone that has business with me. Computer hard drive died today. Was attemping to install a floppy drive, and I'm not sure what happened, but now my hard drive won't boot. I can read from it fine, but I can't boot from it.
In the interim I took a old, small HD and made a Linux install quickly, as I can't find my XP disc *anywhere.* It's taken me all day to get online. I've got an Asus A7N8-X motherboard, and wouldnt' you know it the drivers are only good for Redhat and Suse, and I only have Slackware. I did find an old NIC that I had drivers for, so I was able to hop online real quick.
Anyway...give me a few days, I've got to get a replacement drive, find my XP CD and copy all my files over. Woo hoo.
SirPeale:
This sucks. I just checked the status of my warranty online. Guess when it expired? 12/5/2004! That's right, FOUR FREAKING DAYS AGO.
I had a spare that was semi-working, checked the warranty on that, it expired 9/2004. That's better than four days, but *damn*.
stevejt:
I called for a warranty 4 weeks after it expired. They told me that they will go upto 2 weeks past the expiration date, but not 4. Try calling them. The worst they can say is no.
Steve
SirPeale:
*shrug* I'll give it a shot! Thanks!
Lilwolf:
Most manufacturers have low level format tools for their IDE harddrives... Its a last resort, but can bring some drives back from death.
Also, if you have a bad sector, but the drive doesn't recognize it (worse case senerio). Where it tries to read a sector 10 times... and on the last, it does... so it doesn't mark it bad, but whenever you get to an area of the harddrive it just stalls for minutes... You can fix this also...
Fdisk your drive manually... Create more then one partition (trying to make it so the small partition is just around the bad area... Sometimes it takes a bit to find the right sizings... Then only format the good partitions... And windows will just ignore the rest of the drive.
But all in all... new drives are pretty cheap... might be time for an upgrade.