Zach wrote:
> It's a Toshiba ATA disk, MK6026 GAX, 60GB, another $60 sigh. Hi Zach, >From my limited experience, the Toshiba laptop hard drives are pretty bad. They always go bad after 1 or 2 years. The problem is exactly as you describe. No problems before and one fine day it decides to give input/output errors and then a little grinding noise couple of times and nothing works afterwards. You can recover the data by sending it to a professional data recovery services but they are quite expensive (roughly 10 times the cost of hard drive). I hope you have backups :-) If you had to buy a new laptop hard drive, go with some other brand. I was told that the laptop hard drives in IBM thinkpad's are pretty robust. You can probably search for their brand and purchase that. hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
