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    And so my CF-30's hard drive crapped out

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by Rob, Aug 18, 2010.

  1. Rob

    Rob Toughbook Aficionado

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    Well, shall I say it was working for quite some time (5+ years)... no issues till now. I wanted to upgrade because I'm completely FULL and need room for ISO images and crap...

    Anyways I had a 100GB Hitachi, 7200 RPM, 16MB cache drive and it had 2 partitions (one for XP and one for Win 7), now I didn't use XP any more so I was gonna simply clone this over to a new WD 250GB Black drive (also 7200 RPM and 16MB cache), delete the 2nd partition, fix the MBR and be on my way.

    At least that is what I thought I could do up until I started getting bad sector errors on Ghost about 76% of the way through. Now I waited 16 hours for it to go (wasting my time no doubt) and it never went! :mad: :mad:

    Anyways, I ended up just saving all my data, wipe/reload and now everything is back up and running. What a pain in the ! anyways, it needed to be reloaded so maybe it was a blessing in disguise.

    With that being said, I mad some amendments to the files over in the public downloads HERE because some of the hotkey stuff and the Touchscreen stuff didn't work.

    Thanks!
     
    Rob, Aug 18, 2010
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  2. Toughbook

    Toughbook Drop and Give Me 20!

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    I just had a Hitachi, 100GB, 7200 go bad on me too... I kept getting BSODs on my wife's CF-18... I swapped in an 80GB out of a new(ish) CF-29 and no problemo... I tried to format teh HItachi and it kept giving me bad sector errors.... It was only 4 years old.... Maybe Hitachi saw the handwriting on the wall....
     
    Toughbook, Aug 18, 2010
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  3. Toyo

    Toyo Notebook Deity

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    SSD's boys! How many times am I going to have to tell you :D
     
    Toyo, Aug 19, 2010
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  4. Rob

    Rob Toughbook Aficionado

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    Kindly send me whatever the cost is for an SSD via PayPal and we'll talk ;)
     
    Rob, Aug 19, 2010
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  5. gmgfarrand

    gmgfarrand Notebook Evangelist

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    Newegg had/has a WD 128GB one for $199..
    I seem to remember "someone" offering a 128GB SSD towards trade in for one of your 19's... Hmm.... I wonder who that was....
     
    gmgfarrand, Aug 19, 2010
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  6. Rob

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    Right, of which I will NOT pay for...

    I paid $30 for the new drive on this guy...
     
    Rob, Aug 19, 2010
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    New 500gb Samsung Spin Point for my Patriot Box office at Newegg, $49 shipped (would fit well in my CF-30 if it needed a drive). New 64GB Kingston SLC SSD at Newegg, $755 + 5.99 shipping. Not at my price point yet brother!
    CAP
     
    capt.dogfish, Aug 19, 2010
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    I just picked up the WD 1TB 5200 rpm drive. It runs so quiet and I do not really see any speed difference.
     
    hawk1234, Aug 19, 2010
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    In case your'e bored.

    Support and Q&A for Solid-State Drives - Engineering Windows 7 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

    I made another thread with this article in case somebody doesn't read this one.

    JB, I fully understand how your feeling right now. There is just about no worse feeling than when a HDD craps out on a computer when you are least expecting it to. Every HDD that has ever failed on me has been when I was away from my "Stuff" and couldn't get it back like I wanted.
     
    Toyo, Aug 20, 2010
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