Hi all
The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after 7
hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old, Maybe
its stuffed.
I have tried XP to format it also used Fdisk, is there another way to bring
it back to life. The Hard drive has never been Dropped or miss treated, Do
they Just Die like that?


Cheers

Ockerr <ockerr@yahoo.com> wrote

Very likely, see what samsung's diagnostic says about it.

Surely it isnt taking that long with fdisk ?
Maybe you actually mean dos format after fdisk.

Likely not.

Yes, thats the most common way they fail now.

Ockerr wrote:

PCs (e.g. sector size). Was it an HP PC, or perhaps an Alpha or
PA-RISC server?

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Well I think we have someone who knows something.
YES

Yes it was in a HP Pavillion 564a






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Ockerr wrote:

Well, that's still a PC. I was thinking you might have a SCSI
drive from a non-PC. If it's an IDE drive from a PC, chances
are it's hosed.


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"Ockerr" <ockerr@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:EXX7f.2838$S24.194272@news.xtra.co.nz
A Samsung SCSI drive?

ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL! ROTFLOL!

"CJT" <abujlehc@prodigy.net> wrote in message news:436050AF.7090200@prodigy.net
Even if it *was* a SCSI drive, it'd still be hosed.
No modepage setting will have the effect OP describes.

Folkert Rienstra wrote:

Sector size would.


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After all the comments that were made here:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....791cb fac538f

I'm beginning to suspect that there is some builtin mechanism that
detects when a drive is removed from the laptop that was its home and
then sends the drive on a suicidal path.

Previously bxf <bill@topman.net> wrote:
I doubt that. It would be illegal in many countries and open
the manufacturer up to lawsuits.

Maybe careless removal kills drives? Maybe static electricity?

Arno

Arno Wagner wrote:
I wasn't really being serious:-)

Maybe. Maybe it would have helped if I hadn't let my laptop (in its
carrying case) fall off the top of my suitcase a couple of times while
travelling with it.

"bxf" <bill@topman.net> wrote in message news:1130500828.245376.248800@g14g2000cwa.googlegr oups.com
That's alright. Nothing babblemouth says is to be taken seriously.

Oh no. You encouraged babblemouth once again to lecture.

Folkert Rienstra wrote:
Be nice, FS, or I'll let RS loose! :-)

bxf wrote:
Sorry, that was meant to be:

Be nice, FR, or I'll let RS loose! :-)

bxf <bill@topman.net> wrote:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp....791cb fac538f

Nope, its never done like that.

Its certainly possible to have the ATA security set in the laptop,
but the symptoms would be different if that was the problem.