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Dammit......
Apr. 21st, 2005 01:15 amThe computer fixes I worked on a few days ago are starting to fail.
The hard drive has developed some bad sectors, and there are more bad sectors developing around them. It's what I call "hard drive cancer", because the bad sectors spread across the disk the same way that cancer does: via neighboring cells. (I apologize in advance if this seems like a tacky or insensitive reference.)
And the laptop-40-pin to standard-IDE-40-pin adpater I picked up isn't working either. I couldn't get it to work with two of the laptop hard drives I had. There was power, but data wasn't being read. I was assured that the part was tested and working before it left the factory. Perhaps it's designed to work on newer drives.
Maybe I shouldn't be wasting my time trying to get old computer hardware to work.
The hard drive has developed some bad sectors, and there are more bad sectors developing around them. It's what I call "hard drive cancer", because the bad sectors spread across the disk the same way that cancer does: via neighboring cells. (I apologize in advance if this seems like a tacky or insensitive reference.)
And the laptop-40-pin to standard-IDE-40-pin adpater I picked up isn't working either. I couldn't get it to work with two of the laptop hard drives I had. There was power, but data wasn't being read. I was assured that the part was tested and working before it left the factory. Perhaps it's designed to work on newer drives.
Maybe I shouldn't be wasting my time trying to get old computer hardware to work.
