Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Well, I just pulled the HD and it's not even the same brand as the affected HDs, but I also talked to someone tonite that said they had their HP's HD go out in 2 years and it wasn't one of the affected ones either,,, I think HP must rig HDs to fail after 2 years. Any place I can take my HD to that could test it to see if it really is bad?



Put that HD in a good computer and see what it does. I don't think XP will run on 200mhz unfortunately. I want to say you could put that hd in your old computer, but stil boot from your old HD, and try to see if you can read the information off of the bad HD or if it takes a lot of time to transfer data off of it, but I'm not sure a Win9x system will be able to read off an NTFS formatted hard drive.

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