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Guido_Ostkamp Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "Fatal harddrive crash" 10-06-02, 11:17z  Hi Guys, just want to let you know, that yesterday my main system suffered a fatal harddrive failure, so I may be unable to read my email and this forum for a while. The harddrive began to to make whistling noises earlier, but has always recovered ... well, until yesterday. Now I am getting all kinds of read errors and so on. I immediately went into town to buy a new one, but unfortunately my system is from 1999, and well, you guess it, as always hardware things have changed quite a bit since then. I had to learn that my BIOS is unable to deal with the large harddisks we have today (I had a 10GB and a 20GB, the latter went mad). I have done a BIOS update, but it says it supports only up to 75 GB and my new HD is a 80 GB. While it works quite well with Linux with its full size (maybe it bypasses the BIOS), the Windows fdisk treats it as 10 GB drive So it seems, I will have to spend another 50 bucks on a new additional PCI Ultra-DMA100 Controller with its own BIOS which is able to handle the drive. I just hope, that all the work I have done with the new drive under Linux so far, that is rescuing whatever possible from the old drive, still works when the drive is attached to the new controller. Rescuing as much as possible from the old drive was as well ... hm, adventurously. Sometimes the defect drive worked well for some time, but then stopped - and ya have to do a filesystem check again after the necessary hard reset. Its kind of a nightmare. Regards, Guido Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-06-02              RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Ben_Chiu       10-06-02       1            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       7                 RE: Fatal harddrive crash    RobertVA       10-12-02       12                      RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Mike_Greenwood       10-13-02       13         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    vgbaron       10-06-02       2            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       9         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    AlanParkinson       10-06-02       3            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    TD       10-07-02       5                 RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       8            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       6         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    jerryrosie       10-07-02       4            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       10         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       11

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