laptop HD errors

ICT_GUY · 05-11-2008, 12:40 PM

Here is an odd one, my take is that there is a hardware fault with the disk controller but I would like your take on it.

I have a laptop that came in with a corrupt HD. I used BartPE to run checkdisk, confirmed that it was fubar with a fair few bad sectors, so I swapped it out for a previously working HD from another Laptop that had died.

It all booted up fine, joined it to the new domain, did the usual stuff with updates. After about 5 minutes it blue screened and on reboot came up with missing files errors. checkdisked it with BartPE and it came up with a huge amount of errors.

So any ideas? The laptop looks to have been dropped at some point though not badly.

AngryTechnician · 05-11-2008, 12:56 PM

If it is a controller error then the disk should not be permanently damaged - what happens if you take the second drive, put it into a known good laptop, and run chkdsk on that machine?

ZeroHour · 05-11-2008, 01:17 PM

One thing it could be, although unlikely, is faulty ram. I would run a ram check anyway to be sure.

ICT_GUY · 05-11-2008, 01:53 PM

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Originally Posted by ZeroHour

One thing it could be, although unlikely, is faulty ram. I would run a ram check anyway to be sure.

Thought that myself, will run memtext x86 on it now.

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ICT_GUY Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Weymouth Posts: 899 Thanks: 147 Thanked 44 Times in 31 Posts Rep Power: 16	laptop HD errors Here is an odd one, my take is that there is a hardware fault with the disk controller but I would like your take on it. I have a laptop that came in with a corrupt HD. I used BartPE to run checkdisk, confirmed that it was fubar with a fair few bad sectors, so I swapped it out for a previously working HD from another Laptop that had died. It all booted up fine, joined it to the new domain, did the usual stuff with updates. After about 5 minutes it blue screened and on reboot came up with missing files errors. checkdisked it with BartPE and it came up with a huge amount of errors. So any ideas? The laptop looks to have been dropped at some point though not badly.

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AngryTechnician Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 159 Thanks: 18 Thanked 12 Times in 9 Posts Rep Power: 4	If it is a controller error then the disk should not be permanently damaged - what happens if you take the second drive, put it into a known good laptop, and run chkdsk on that machine?

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ZeroHour Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland Posts: 2,024 Thanks: 106 Thanked 204 Times in 92 Posts Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 48	One thing it could be, although unlikely, is faulty ram. I would run a ram check anyway to be sure.

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