dunno if any of you remember my pain & anguish when bad sectors made my lappie unbootable but how eve tho it has bad sectors its working i kno it could fail but its still better than nothing, right
congrats on getting it to work! (I know the feeling of getting a computer to work, bad HDD or good!) For me, sometimes buying something is not an option. (more often than not, actually)
I had the same probelem with my HD, I used the FreeBSD disk tools to get it working, it took about two days of the machine continually scanning itself for it mark all the bad sectors as "bad". I bought a new HD for it a few months ago, solved the problem completely, but i know exactly how you feel. Laptop on. Disk goes click click click. /me :cries:
this is an old system, a toshiba satellite 300cds running a p166 (still pretty nippy) & it is a 2gb hd but this laptop was made when they still put limits on the bios so i ill ahve to get toshiba to help me & as i bought it 2nd nad i have no chance plus i want all my money for a tivo
toshiba are reluctant to allow you to do that, like most laptop makers they belive the machine should die with the hardware it was born with, hah toshiba i upped the ram from 16mb to 80mb that & the toshiba website is not the most user friendly, ah well if it comes to it, i will jsut buy the smallest capacity drive i can get & let the laptop stil think it has a 2gb drive in there
You should be able to go upto a 4 or 8 gig drive on that Lapop, I had a Toshiba Laptop 640 CDT, P166 MMX 32 megs of ram, 2 gig hdd, lovely little machine and I think it would of happily gonme up to an 8 gig hard drive, but I sold the machine because I hardly ever used it.
