[Thinkpad] MS software killed my drive ??

[Mark Gardiner]

Hi All, 

I have really all but given up on this HDD problem, but thought I'd air the
issue here in case its been come across before because it perplexes me!!

I was moving data around a series of older FAT 32  IDE 2.5" drives to
relieve one for a specific task and was using a combination of both my
760ED and T23 with their 2ndHDD adapters and a useful USB2.0-3.5"-2.5"
powered adapter.

The drive in question - an old 2.1Gb Travelstar, 17mm jobbie, had been
running fine in its previous setup, and I wanted to remove a lot of
extraneous old data/apps leaving the OS in place to make life simpler than
all the F'disking/formatting answering all MS's install routine questions
for over an hour!!!. Previously it was running in the 760. 

I had it connected via the USB adapter to the T23 running XP Pro and was
doing fine, when after about 20 mins of deleting it started to throw up
error messages such as 'Source diectory not found'. So I ran the error
checker under Tools and it did find lost clusters, so to cut short the
effort, I popped it back into the 760 as the master and it powered but
wouldn't boot cleanly revealing errors. So I booted up from a W98 bootdisk
and ran scandisk and ellected to fix errors. BUT on reboot, the drive
didn't power at all... ??

I have tried fitting it to all sorts of other machines and it is totally
dead - no power... I could understand a disk error resulting from this
activity, but for it to be totally killed by disk housekeeping software???
It just goes to show that MS software isn't compatible with itself at
all...

Any thoughts??

Cheers

Mark
UK