Hello, I would strongly suggest replacing the hard disk drive. I do not recall if the 600-series of ThinkPads is of the vintage that worked best with IBM or Hitachi hard disk drives, but if you cannot find suitable rotating media replacements, perhaps you can use a fast CompactFlash card with a suitable CF-to-PATA adapter, instead.
Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 09:00 AM 10/31/2009, you wrote:
Message: 4 Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:39:45 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] 600X making progress To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:30:23 -0700, Aryeh Goretsky (home) wrote: >Have you tried performing a non-destructive test of the hard disk drive >using the hard disk drive manufacturer's diagnostic utiiity? That >should tell you whether or not the hard disk drive has begun to fail. >In the event that it has, it would probably be a good idea to replace >it, as damage tends to increase over time, sometimes quite rapidly. Yes I hv 32 k bad bytes on another partition so sure it's beginning to go
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