| From: | TOM BAILIE |
| Date: | 24 Oct 2000 at 23:04:52 |
| Subject: | Re: (Dodgy) 2.5in. HDDs' |
Gorden Moss helpfully stated:-
> >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
I wish to goodness I could do that, but how, when HDInstall and
HDTools don't recognise that the drives exist? Believe me, I've
tried!
Many Thanks for you're help, though. It's much appreciated.
Tom.
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