[Thinkpad] MS software killed my drive ??

[Matt]

Simple answer...........it died/you killed it.

Once you saw the error messages, you should have left it in the same machine 
and finished the job. Swapping into a different machine after that didn't 
increase your chances of success.

Likely you hit some bad disk areas (previously unused) & that was that. It's 
also possible all the flexing of the IDE connector had something to do with 
the failure. It IS an old hard drive. It's also possible that the XP version 
of file repair that began isn't compatible with the W98 boot disks' & thus, 
isn't recognized while still in process.

"It used to work, now it doesn't - Must be Microsoft's fault"

Gimme a break.......

> 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...
>