Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 19:44:23 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard error?? Message-ID: <20030214194423.GA4638@fourtytwo.gamesoc> In-Reply-To: <3E4D4146.3090804@mac.com> References: <F184M5TPhrOFoqinGE50000315f@hotmail.com> <3E4D4146.3090804@mac.com>
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 02:19:34PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Henrik W Lund wrote: > [ ... ] > >Anyway, I want to know for sure that this disk failure is not due to any > >FreeBSD shenanigans, as I do not want to buy a new drive and install > >FreeBSD to it, only to have it crash on me just days later. > > Fair enough. Check with the vendor of your hard drive (or the laptop) > for their hard-drive test utilities. You should be able to do a > non-destructive read test and see what you see.... > My drive really did fail after attempting to install FreeBSD - I mananged to get the BIOS and Windows to recognise it long enough to run IBM's smartdefender program. It told me the drive was basically dead. Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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