Computer Fun

[sraun]

iraunink's laptop (an IBM Thinkpad) died the other day. It looked like it was starting Windows, then went black, and nothing happened. When I tried to boot it in Safe Mode, it got to the fourth or fifth line, and died. :-(

I ended up finding a package that would test the hard-drive, and it found some very dead clusters. Marked bad, now I'm doing a Windows reinstall. It's currently pulling down WinXP Service Pack 2 - or trying to. I anticipate that getting Service Packs will be a big part of what I'm spending time on tomorrow.

At some point in the near future, we should get a new hard-drive for it. Anyone have a 2.5" PATA drive they don't need any more? Anything less than 100GB should be good.

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[sraun]

Since large hard-drives and LBA, I agree. Before then, not so much.

But, yeah, I expect it to die again soonish. Which is why we're going to be in search of a replacement drive. I don't know if I'll clone this one to it, or just build a new install - what I'm doing to get this one working is pretty ugly.