re: disk drive broken
Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 11:46 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Jack Gulley
(5917 messages posted)
The Sony web site has good information on their laptops. Often show good diagrams
on how to access and replace things like disk drives. They should also have a standalone
test program for the disk drive you can download and use to check the disk drive.
Sometimes a lowlevel format can recover the use of a disk drive with Disk I/O errors.
I would recommend booting the laptop with a Windows ME boot diskette (or a bootable
CD with the windows ME boot diskette image on it) and try running SCANDISK C:
to see if it can correct the problem, or access the disk drive. Normally if you
can access the drive and read some of it, a single sector or block that is causing
a disk I/O error can be bypassed. However if the drive is really bad, check the Sony
site first. Then find out exactly what disk type and model number you have. Then
check the various web sites that sell disk drives and see what they have as replacements.
- Written in response to:
- disk drive broken (Claire: Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 4:22 am)
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