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    CF-19 Issues..

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by gmgfarrand, Sep 23, 2010.

  1. gmgfarrand

    gmgfarrand Notebook Evangelist

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    OK, so I have a CF-19 MK1 thats been having one issue or another since I got it.
    I reported earlier that if it gets a decent knock on it or falls, it reboots.
    Well, it got knocked off a desk a few days ago and it rebooted...
    Problem is, it won't go into my Windows 7 load..
    So I figured, it wasted that part of my HD.. no biggie, I'll re-install..
    Everytime I try to load Windows7, it gets past the initial install, but will not boot, keeps crashing on GRAPHICS driver which makes zero sense because it loads a vanilla driver on install, and I've never seen it on the hundred or so Windows 7 loads I have done in the past.

    I have deleted all partitions off the HD, and have even done a low level as to avoid any bad sector issues, although doubtful, that there may be.

    Anyone ever see this kind of thing happen?
     
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    It looks to be the hard drive, any time that I have seen missing drivers, especialy video when booting its been a hard drive failure , mostly on old desktops

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    Aye, I just found an unused HD to test it out...
    Its indeed the HD, wierd... Never saw it do that before!
    I installed UBUNTU just fine... Maybe I'll give it a good scrub again and give it a shot.
     
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    Drops are not good for hard drives , even with the foam type caddy that the fully rugged Toughbooks have
    My latest Seagate sata hard drives have a free-fall sensor
    And I use solid state drives
    Might be worth a look :D


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    I've got 2 solid state drives.. but they are running in RAID-0 on my desktop, not sure I wanna take those out! ;)
    What Seagate drive do you have?
     
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    Not a good idea, unless it was raid 1 , you will loose 1/2 your data lol


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    I know.. I wanted more speed.. plus since they are only 128GB SSDs, I make backups to the other 6TB I have on standard HDDs... ;)
     
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    gmgfarrand, Sep 23, 2010
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