HD Failing???

I have a Fujitsu MPG3204AH as a secondary boot drive, the last 2 days it
will not boot. Running Windows XP , drives gets to Windows Logo, a blue
screen appears ,with a bunch of stuff on it then goes away, and computer
reboots. I have tried using the checkdisk utility in Windows XP, but when
the system gets to a certain portion of checking the disk, it stops and
reboots.

Are there any utilities that I can run from another drive, to diagnose the
problems with this Fujitsu drive? I have one from Fujitsu and I need to run
it from a dos boot disk, does XP make a Dos boot disk??

Thanks

"Just Wondering" wrote in message
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I have a Fujitsu MPG3204AH as a secondary boot drive, the last 2 days it
will not boot. Running Windows XP , drives gets to Windows Logo, a blue
screen appears ,with a bunch of stuff on it then goes away, and computer
reboots. I have tried using the checkdisk utility in Windows XP, but when
the system gets to a certain portion of checking the disk, it stops and
reboots.

Are there any utilities that I can run from another drive, to diagnose the
problems with this Fujitsu drive? I have one from Fujitsu and I need to
run
it from a dos boot disk, does XP make a Dos boot disk??


I'm surprised that your Fujitsu MPG is still working! Every single one that
my company installed has now failed. These drives use a Cirrus Logic Arm
chip that the maker encapsulated in a wrong type of epoxy resin. It becomes
conductive over time shorting out the chip. There are law suites going on
all over the world against Fujitsu because of it.
http://www.classactioncounsel.com/fu...litigation.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/27926.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/27871.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/27112.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/28384.html

Same at my company, but luckily we have a supplier that takes the drives
back from us and pays us a good amount that will easily pay for a higher
sized drive. Best thing is we only ever bought 20 from them and they so far
have swapped thousands of drives for us. The Company is Micro Peripherals in
the UK and they are great.

"Alien Zord" wrote in message
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"Just Wondering" wrote in message
ble.rogers.com...
I have a Fujitsu MPG3204AH as a secondary boot drive, the last 2 days it
will not boot. Running Windows XP , drives gets to Windows Logo, a blue
screen appears ,with a bunch of stuff on it then goes away, and computer
reboots. I have tried using the checkdisk utility in Windows XP, but
when
the system gets to a certain portion of checking the disk, it stops and
reboots.

Are there any utilities that I can run from another drive, to diagnose
the
problems with this Fujitsu drive? I have one from Fujitsu and I need to
run
it from a dos boot disk, does XP make a Dos boot disk??


I'm surprised that your Fujitsu MPG is still working! Every single one
that
my company installed has now failed. These drives use a Cirrus Logic Arm
chip that the maker encapsulated in a wrong type of epoxy resin. It
becomes
conductive over time shorting out the chip. There are law suites going on
all over the world against Fujitsu because of it.
http://www.classactioncounsel.com/fu...litigation.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/27926.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/27871.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/27112.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/28384.html