Re: TI-H: hd for sale? or can you help me fix it....


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Re: TI-H: hd for sale? or can you help me fix it....




If you got this from your school, chances are they lost some data or windows
died or some crap and they're just saying it crashed because that's the only
way to explain it (other than their own stupidity). I've earned many a
"crashed" computer that way.

-Gabe
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Johnson <rickvj@iglou.com>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 7:18 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: hd for sale? or can you help me fix it....


>
>KrazyJolt@aol.com wrote:
>>
>> my school just gave me a 280 meg hd from panasonic...
>> they say they don't want it either because of a few bad sectors or
because it
>> crashed.
>> is there any way to restore a hd after is has crashed?
>>
>
>Depends on the definition of crashed. If its the official version, no.
>The read head has CRASHED into the platters. (Hence the name). If it is
>the more commonly used version, the software has died on it, the its
>okay, and can be formated. Check the drive, if there are many Bad
>sectors, it has truely crashed and needs to be destroyed.
>
>Adam
>