| From: | Gordon Moss |
| Date: | 24 Oct 2000 at 19:10:58 |
| Subject: | Re: (Dodgy) 2.5in. HDDs' |
>Some guidence required.
>I recently purchases two 2.5in. Hard Drives at a computer fair (the
>seller not having tested them), that had been stripped from Laptops
>and I'm wondering have I lost my 'gamble'.
>Both drives are Toshiba, a 1.4Gb., and a 8.5Mg.
>When I tried them on a 'bare bones' A1200, both Read/Write Heads >tried
>to read 3 or 4 times and then stopped, although the Disks continued
>turning. They prevented booting from both OS3.0 and OS3.1 Install
>Floppies until the R/W Heads stopped searching.
Hi Tom,
These two 2.5" drives have probably been used on a laptop, and you may need
to select the option of low level formatting before either drive will work
properly. This has happened to me previously with a brand new drive, and
since you`re thinking of throwing them out wouldn`t hurt to try it.
Yours helpfully,
[Flash]
gomoss@lineone.net
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