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Hard disk issues (Toshiba 4070CDS)

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  • 30-11-2007 12:02am
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    My brother's friend dropped in a laptop for me to look at, a Toshiba Satellite 4070CDS (Celeron 366 I think). It was reporting errors on the hard disk, bad sectors and the like. I guessed the disk was bad and put it in my PC via USB to format it. But the format and subsequent chkdsk /r passed with no errors at all. So I put the disk back in and installed Windows 98 - all seemed well.

    But now the drive is acting up again - giving disk write errors and "...press any key to run ScanDisk with surface analysis on these drives" upon bootup. The disk isn't original, it's a 20GB Hitachi drive.

    Does anyone know what could be wrong? The only thing I can guess is maybe a capacity constraint like the 8.4GB barrier or something? The disk seemed perfectly fine in the USB caddy, just in the laptop it acts up.


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    Villain
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    Could be the IDE connection to the board.


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