[olug] Dell 600m hard-drive problem

[Eric Lusk]

The overall behavior indicates that the drive is failing; diagnostics may run, and check OK, as the platters are fine.  HOWEVER, the odd detection issues point to something wrong in the drive's circuitry.
It may run for a long time like that, but I try not to press my luck in those situations.

 I ran the Harry Potter books through a spell checker; none of those spells should work.



----- Original Message ----
From: John Serafino <programmingmoney at gmail.com>
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 8:52:17 PM
Subject: [olug] Dell 600m hard-drive problem

I've got a little problem with my laptop.
You see, GRUB, kinda started giving me "error 18".
And after I fixed that, I still get the error. Then, when
I boot from an ubuntu live-CD, gparted and cfdisk simply
started telling me that I didn't have a drive. BIOS can
detect the drive, and it must be there, because BIOS is
executing GRUB from my drive.

I googled grub and learned about error 18, and I looked
for stuff on failing and crashed hard drives in a dell 600m.
But the only thing any body else has been able to do is
replace the drive.

Anybody have any experiences, alternatives, suggestions
or thoughts about this?


Thanks!
-- 
-John

John 15:13: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down
his life for his friends."
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