Satellite A40 HDD Possible fault... ?

Hello

At the end of December, I had to return my A40 Toshiba for a new hard drive because it was not completely.

It is now March and I'm getting the same problems once again, I went to open Miscrsoft Outlook yesterday and the whole machine simply locked with the drive hard light is constantly on, but no movement.

When I restarted the machine, it simply froze on the windows xp logo, which is the beginning of my problems with the previous hard disk. I have a backup of the drive and think it might be windows currupt I resinstalled the backup but the same problem has started to emerge again, and I know that it was a 'good' backup image.

I tried running scandisk but it is stuck at 9 percent and crashes, I tried a complete reformat of the disc using and windows xp insall cd but this happens at 8 percent and crashes.

I'm just witing for this rattling noise the last drive makes when it is finally gone completely.

This sounds like a hard drive problem...? and should I be contacting support I have the additional guarantee of 2 years on this subject. Don't want to be told it's a software problem and I am sure that it is not.

Concerning
Brian

Hello

This could be a beginning of the end.
You should always make a backup of your files, because the HARD disk may crash every time.
Be careful

Please see this site:
http://www.dposoft.NET/

Maybe it s useful to you.

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