Excellent diagnosis. I ran the Lenovo Hard Drive Quick Test on my WD 320gb 5400 drive and it failed the SMART short self test.
What 500gb or 640gb drive is currently recommended? Rob Bell wrote: > Sounds like a disk problem manifesting itself. If you can get it rebooted > don't try the file copy again but do make sure to back up your important > files from the drive, then try running a disk diagnostic program to see what > is wrong. > > Rob > > [email protected] wrote: > >> Yesterday I was copying a file to another machine via USB and my x61s froze. >> I tried to reboot, but other than the drive whirring and some of the status >> lights blinking, nothing happened (screen black, no fan, etc.). >> >> A few hours later, I tried rebooting and I got to the POST and fingerprint >> reader screen, but no further (hitting ESC to enter PW by keyboard didn't do >> anything) >> >> Yet later the machine started normally. I then tried to copy my file by USB >> and it froze again. >> >> Any suggestions (other than not copying a file via USB)? > > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
