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Old March 5th 05, 06:50 PM
Tom Scales
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Nah, who cares? Nothing important on the drive -- just the Operating
System.

Tom
ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
Tom,

Count your blessings. Then shop, quickly, for a replacement drive. A
5-year-old Bigfoot is living on borrowed time, much like a patient who has
been
told by the doctor that the disease is fatal. The Bigfoot drives have
irreversible birth defects... Ben Myers

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:16:16 GMT, "Tom Scales"
wrote:

While I agree with you, I have a Presario 5600 still running its original
Bigfoot!
ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
One more thing... "Presario 5555" does not show up as a model on the
HPaq
web
site, but Google turns it up and says it is a Pentium III tower system
with a
13.5GB drive. The system is old enough to have used the absolutely
wretched
piece-of-junk 5-and-a-quarter-inch Quantum Bigfoot drive. If your
system
has
one of the Quantum Bigfoot drives, replace it! Do not pass go, do not
collect
$200. Replace the damned drive. The Bigfoot has one of the worst
reliability
records in the industry, all because of its original design, which is a
tale too
long to tell in this newsgroup... Ben Myers

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:37:24 GMT, "Tzuraster"

wrote:

Hi,

I've recently been geetting a strange clicking sound from my 4 year-old
Presario (like something switching on and off -- much like the sound you
get
coming out of standby mode). I'm pretty familiar with the noises it
makes,
and this is new and ominous. :-) Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers,

Tzuraster.








  #12  
Old March 5th 05, 07:36 PM
Ben Myers
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I've always said that the most valuable part of a computer is the content of the
hard drive. Any other electronic component can be replaced, sometimes
inexpensively, sometimes not. So, yes, in your case, who cares?

.... Ben Myers

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:50:21 GMT, "Tom Scales" wrote:

Nah, who cares? Nothing important on the drive -- just the Operating
System.

Tom
ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
Tom,

Count your blessings. Then shop, quickly, for a replacement drive. A
5-year-old Bigfoot is living on borrowed time, much like a patient who has
been
told by the doctor that the disease is fatal. The Bigfoot drives have
irreversible birth defects... Ben Myers

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:16:16 GMT, "Tom Scales"
wrote:

While I agree with you, I have a Presario 5600 still running its original
Bigfoot!
ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
One more thing... "Presario 5555" does not show up as a model on the
HPaq
web
site, but Google turns it up and says it is a Pentium III tower system
with a
13.5GB drive. The system is old enough to have used the absolutely
wretched
piece-of-junk 5-and-a-quarter-inch Quantum Bigfoot drive. If your
system
has
one of the Quantum Bigfoot drives, replace it! Do not pass go, do not
collect
$200. Replace the damned drive. The Bigfoot has one of the worst
reliability
records in the industry, all because of its original design, which is a
tale too
long to tell in this newsgroup... Ben Myers

On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:37:24 GMT, "Tzuraster"

wrote:

Hi,

I've recently been geetting a strange clicking sound from my 4 year-old
Presario (like something switching on and off -- much like the sound you
get
coming out of standby mode). I'm pretty familiar with the noises it
makes,
and this is new and ominous. :-) Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers,

Tzuraster.









  #13  
Old March 5th 05, 07:51 PM
Tzuraster
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Actually, it's an AMD Athlon with 60GB drive.

See other message.

Cheers,

Tzuraster.

One more thing... "Presario 5555" does not show up as a model on the HPaq

web
site, but Google turns it up and says it is a Pentium III tower system

with a
13.5GB drive. The system is old enough to have used the absolutely

wretched
piece-of-junk 5-and-a-quarter-inch Quantum Bigfoot drive. If your system

has
one of the Quantum Bigfoot drives, replace it! Do not pass go, do not

collect
$200. Replace the damned drive. The Bigfoot has one of the worst

reliability
records in the industry, all because of its original design, which is a

tale too
long to tell in this newsgroup... Ben Myers



  #14  
Old March 5th 05, 07:53 PM
Tzuraster
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I'll do that....thanks for the advice.

Tzuraster.


May I suggest that you identify the manufacturer and model of the drive,

then
download and run the drive manufacturer's hard drive diagnostic software,

which
is at least 100x more thorough and authoritative than scumdisk, er,

scandisk, in
finding out the state of the drive? If there is even one bad sector on

the
drive, replace it... Ben Myers



 




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