[CS-FSLUG] Salvage Laptop Drive
Tim Young
Tim.Young at LightSys.org
Tue Apr 19 14:50:15 CDT 2011
Hi, Ed. I have the tools and the know-how to check it out, and I
could use it as an upgrade to my wife's laptop. So if you don't have
a better offer than a missionary's wife, then I would be happy to
take it.
I would also be fine telling you how to check it out yourself, if you
wanted to use it as a backup drive for yourself or anything. :)
Oh. If you just did the switch-over, I would recommend waiting a
week or so before disposing of the old drive. There is always a
small "burn-in" window for new drives when there is a much higher
chance of failure. Unless you have a good backup of your new system,
keeping the old drive around a bit would be a wise thing to do...
- Tim Young
On 4/19/2011 2:23 PM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> Folks, last week I had trouble with my laptop. With my limited
> skills, I decided it was the hard drive. In hopes it was not the
> controller on the board, I ordered a replacement. It arrived today
> and testing indicates the problem is solved. The system was
> functional, but different OSes seemed to handle it differently.
> Debian Squeeze, my preference, didn't do that well. Vista seemed to
> handle it better, but I couldn't stand using that.
>
> So now I have this extra hard drive which is questionable. Is there
> anyone on the list interested in messing with it? I'll be glad to
> ship it myself: Toshiba MK2552GSX - SATA 250GB 5400 RPM. It still
> has Squeeze 32-bit, and I'll be glad to send the passwords, too.
>
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