On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 08:47:21PM +0000, Bill Waugh wrote: > Al Feng wrote: > > > > Before you try anything drastic, you may want to try the drives in a > > different PC case ... your power supply may be dodgey and not putting out > > enough amperage -- a particularly plausible potential hazard with the > > trim/slim profile cases which have a 150 watt or smaller PS. > > > Thanks Al, I did try a different feed and changed the cable, the drive > powered up ok it just would not read. > I have now formatted the drive - how does the Q40 do it so fast?
it doesn't do low-level format. Does the drive read ok now? If so than it was probably just one bad sector or a damaged filesystem. It might be possible to tell appart HW failure and damaged filesystem failure by trying direct sector r/w, booting a linux kernel or plugging the HD into another computer. Bye Richard
