Peder
Hobbit
Well seems i have yet another of the loverly Seagate components that love to fail.
A friend of mine's laptop started being funny and throwing all kinds of error messages when starting windows and eventually i kinda got it right but told him he must bring it to me so i can reload it(well the MTN 3G card was not working still)
So i got the laptop on saturday and he says the laptop won't start AT ALL!! it just keeps saying ntoskrnl.exe missing so i ran chkdsk etc and it still didn't work, almost got to replacing the file but never did, i was suspecting its going to give me more krap as the time goes on...
So then i said to him i'm going to reload his pc he said fine just save the documents etc, i did that using linux live cd( which btw worked like a BOMB) and copied the data off.
Then i put in the XP CD started running it it formatted the drive(made it do the full format) and it got stuck at 23% and said windows can't format the drive.
So i decided to use the UBCD(ultimate boot cd) and started cute partitioner which opened nicely but when i wanted to partition the drive to one big drive it would only let me put it as 29000 and 61000 (ie. 2 partitions) it wouldn't let me do 2 partitions and also insterestingly those 2 partitions were the same size as the original 2 that were on the pc.
So i thought ok i'll give cute partitioner its want and made 2 partitions but still windows just said can't format drives (on both partitions)
Next, i thought come lets quickly try seatools and run tests, so i ran a short test, it failed. Long test also failed (it didn't even finish). Now i made seatools fromat the drive but guess what? its at 23% again and stuck there...
What could cause this problem? can i do anything to save this drive or must i just find a new drive?
Peder
A friend of mine's laptop started being funny and throwing all kinds of error messages when starting windows and eventually i kinda got it right but told him he must bring it to me so i can reload it(well the MTN 3G card was not working still)
So i got the laptop on saturday and he says the laptop won't start AT ALL!! it just keeps saying ntoskrnl.exe missing so i ran chkdsk etc and it still didn't work, almost got to replacing the file but never did, i was suspecting its going to give me more krap as the time goes on...
So then i said to him i'm going to reload his pc he said fine just save the documents etc, i did that using linux live cd( which btw worked like a BOMB) and copied the data off.
Then i put in the XP CD started running it it formatted the drive(made it do the full format) and it got stuck at 23% and said windows can't format the drive.
So i decided to use the UBCD(ultimate boot cd) and started cute partitioner which opened nicely but when i wanted to partition the drive to one big drive it would only let me put it as 29000 and 61000 (ie. 2 partitions) it wouldn't let me do 2 partitions and also insterestingly those 2 partitions were the same size as the original 2 that were on the pc.
So i thought ok i'll give cute partitioner its want and made 2 partitions but still windows just said can't format drives (on both partitions)
Next, i thought come lets quickly try seatools and run tests, so i ran a short test, it failed. Long test also failed (it didn't even finish). Now i made seatools fromat the drive but guess what? its at 23% again and stuck there...
What could cause this problem? can i do anything to save this drive or must i just find a new drive?
Peder
