Comments on: Computer Technicians 203: Hard Disk Failures

By: prince

prince — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:57:20 +0000

how do we solve blue screen error

By: Shaun Thorpe

Shaun Thorpe — Wed, 20 May 2009 00:23:32 +0000

I had just installed Windows 7 Evaluation version to give it test drive. After installation it told me that my main hard drive was bad and I needed to do a backup and replace it. Now I am trying to reinstall windows XP and every hard drive I have tried to intall the OS on, new and used, tells me “the file acpi.sys is corrupted” how do I get around this. Thanks

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:16:24 +0000

I’ve been looking at Solid State Disks (SSD). They have had some bad press in regard to reliability but it seems to be changing. Intel are claiming 5 years “useful life” for their X-18M SSD based on a hefty data writing load of 100GB/day. Metron are willing to offer a 5 year warranty on their SSD Pro 7000 series. Price is still a problem but some are predicting parity with conventional HDD in 2011.

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Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:19:30 +0000

[...] Computer Technicians 203: Hard Disk Failures – One of the most hazardous, annoying, and generally panic-inducing failures that happen on any computer are hard-drive failures. While they can be moderately to extremely hard to fix, diagnosing them comes first, so you could be able to determine just how much damage the disk sustained and can sustain before it finally dies. [...]

By: kailash pantha

kailash pantha — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:03:13 +0000

My stata hard disk works well but if i copy data to the hard disk to certain level it starts making noise and computer gets hang.
there is bad sector seen in my hard disk.
how can i get recovery for this.

By: kris

kris — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:02:29 +0000

You can try low level format or HDD Regenerator to remove bad sector in hardisk..

By: Rajiv

Rajiv — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:48:00 +0000

how to remove bad sectors in harddisk

By: Rajiv

Rajiv — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:46:40 +0000

When my harddisk not detect then what will i do