[Thinkpad] MS software killed my drive ??

[eletourneau at verizon.net]

In <04f001c74a46$9f785ca0$6c01a8c0 at TECHNET>, on 02/06/2007 
   at 05:29 PM, "Matt" <mwtech at ameritech.net> said:



>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.......


Actually, I once had to sign a beta testing agreement that had a
provision, that said they were not responsible of the equipment was
damaged.  Thus, it is possible. 




>> 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...
>>


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