Chad Waters on 14 Nov 2007 16:32:41 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] drive testing


On 11/14/07, Brian Stempin  wrote:
> Usually that sounds indicates that the drive heads are beating against a
> post.  I would immediately back everything up.
>
> If you can prove to HP that the drive is dead, they'll let you just ship
> back the drive as opposed to shipping the entire laptop.  Usually, their
> diagnosis procedure is to use the HD test utility that is embedded into the
> BIOS.  I would start by using that to see if the drive fails.
>

And don't mention that you're running linux because they'll say that's
the reason behind the failure. :)
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