Tuesday, November 11, 2003
arghh!
(btw: I AM SO FRUSTRATED with this laptop thing!)
anyway, new info:
- i downloaded the most recent version of DFT (Drive Fitness Tool, for IBM/Hitachi drives), put it on a floppy, and ran it on my laptop. it passed the Quick Test (phew), but not the Advanced Test :(. about 2 or 3 times the HD was making weird clicking noises, very similar to the sounds it makes when it tries to boot up but can't (right before the BSoD). I imagine that is when it is unable to read/write to a sector. Anyway, after the Advanced Test was over, it said that "one or more sectors is corrupted" or something like that, and it gave me the option of either erasing the disk, repairing the sector(s), or just doing nothing. since doing either of the first two would result in data loss, i did nothing. argh. well it gave me an error code and stuff, maybe tomorrow i will call the IBM folks and ask them what to do about this. Since i got the HD in Dec 2001 i'm not sure if it's still under warranty or not. regardless getting a new HD shouldn't be too expensive, and it wouldn't be too horrible if i had to move all my data onto a new HD...
-i made an Emergency Boot CD using a certain utility i downloaded (made by this russian guy), but was unable to use the 2nd option that has NTFS support. So i don't think this thing is going to work for me, since the main reason i made it was to access the harddisk. The thing also had Linux tools and other stuff on there, but i had no idea how to use them. :(
- i talked to my dad and he says that maybe we can meet on Wednesday (before my flight leaves) and we can try to fix it (using Fast Repair?) with the Windows 2000 CD (he has it). I'm going to first try it without an ERD, and then with one (i can make one using the files from TSM here). maybe i should also put the SAM file, since it is small enough to fit on a disk, and i think that file is somehow corrupted.
oh, and i almost forgot: in my drive info (from DFT), under security features it said the password was "not set," and the "security mode" was "frozen". i wonder if this is why i couldn't use a lot of utilities (the Win2k Recovery Console, the Microsoft Reg Repair utility and the NTFS support on the EBCD?) . there is a utility on the EBCD to reset the NT password, and i'm wondering if should try that? however i'm a bit skeptical of doing so, since it said it could corrupt a sam file and it would make some encrypted files (EFS files) unusable, whatever that means....
anyway, new info:
- i downloaded the most recent version of DFT (Drive Fitness Tool, for IBM/Hitachi drives), put it on a floppy, and ran it on my laptop. it passed the Quick Test (phew), but not the Advanced Test :(. about 2 or 3 times the HD was making weird clicking noises, very similar to the sounds it makes when it tries to boot up but can't (right before the BSoD). I imagine that is when it is unable to read/write to a sector. Anyway, after the Advanced Test was over, it said that "one or more sectors is corrupted" or something like that, and it gave me the option of either erasing the disk, repairing the sector(s), or just doing nothing. since doing either of the first two would result in data loss, i did nothing. argh. well it gave me an error code and stuff, maybe tomorrow i will call the IBM folks and ask them what to do about this. Since i got the HD in Dec 2001 i'm not sure if it's still under warranty or not. regardless getting a new HD shouldn't be too expensive, and it wouldn't be too horrible if i had to move all my data onto a new HD...
-i made an Emergency Boot CD using a certain utility i downloaded (made by this russian guy), but was unable to use the 2nd option that has NTFS support. So i don't think this thing is going to work for me, since the main reason i made it was to access the harddisk. The thing also had Linux tools and other stuff on there, but i had no idea how to use them. :(
- i talked to my dad and he says that maybe we can meet on Wednesday (before my flight leaves) and we can try to fix it (using Fast Repair?) with the Windows 2000 CD (he has it). I'm going to first try it without an ERD, and then with one (i can make one using the files from TSM here). maybe i should also put the SAM file, since it is small enough to fit on a disk, and i think that file is somehow corrupted.
oh, and i almost forgot: in my drive info (from DFT), under security features it said the password was "not set," and the "security mode" was "frozen". i wonder if this is why i couldn't use a lot of utilities (the Win2k Recovery Console, the Microsoft Reg Repair utility and the NTFS support on the EBCD?) . there is a utility on the EBCD to reset the NT password, and i'm wondering if should try that? however i'm a bit skeptical of doing so, since it said it could corrupt a sam file and it would make some encrypted files (EFS files) unusable, whatever that means....
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