Subj : FDISK.
To   : CHARLES SCAGLIONE
From : JEAN PARROT
Date : Thu Sep 15 2005 10:06 am

        Hello Charles, we were saying !

        Funny behaviour of a HD. I have this 30 g HD that was extracted
  from the Thinkpad and that now is in an external USB case. I tried to
  get it connected yesterday and it would go chunk-chunk-chunk but not
  be seen. I placed it back into the TP but it was not seen either and
  I could not Restore to it.

        Called IBM, they were willing to send me a new HD as it is an
  FRU but wanted me to run tests before. I was given a URL of
  www.HGST.com and to D/L from support the CD Image. It came down as
  an .iso file and I copied it as an image to a CD then ran the tests.
  The HD is good. Oh ! then I thought. I booted to DOS and ran the
  FDISK routine on it plus a format. Now it is seen.

        Now that you read the story, here is the question...what could
  have happend to this HD to loose it MBR and its format ? It was not
  dropped nor banged about. This is my first instance of this
  happening, have you lived this ?

     
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  Have a great day !
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