[CS-FSLUG] Salvage Laptop Drive

[Tim Young]

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.
>