I think any hard drive in a notebook faces a tough and short life. Lots of
vibration, operating in many different positions, etc. It's a wonder they
work as well as they do...
on 01.7.11 5:56 PM, David Cortright at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> FWIW, I and at least one more person at work had a PowerBook hard drive
> crash and burn as well. Both IBM drives. Mine was replaced under the
> warranty. I luckily had a 1 day old backup.
>
>> The reason I suspect a drive problem is that I recently had a similar
>> failure on my Powerbook - also with and IBM drive. Since I travel a lot by
>> plane, the drive gets a lot of high frequency vibration - which is known to
>> cause problems. The characteristics of the problems reading I had are almost
>> exactly what you described. Unfortunately, in my case there were too many
>> bad sectors to map, so I replaced the drive.
>
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