ThinkPad T40 hard drive woes

It's....dying!

Published on June 30, 2004 By Draginol In Personal Computing

I love my IBM ThinkPad T40. I've been using ThinkPads as my notebook of choice since 1994 when I got a ThinkPad 750 (I think it was). I've had great luck with them.

But with this ThinkPad T40, the hard drive just doesn't seem to be quite right. It is slowly dying. Sector by sector, it is degrading. Luckily, I actually do backups on a regular basis so when Windows got wiped out again due to more sectors going bad, I was able to recover my data. But I don't trust it now, I'm going to have to talk to IBM about it. I'll let you know how well their service goes.

Comments

CarpeThis

on Jul 02, 2004

My laptop has been eating right through the IBM "deathstar" laptop drives. I lost quite a bit of data last week to drive crash. I think there is a real problem with these drives.

Although, the company that services my laptop has replaced each one as full coverage each time. Crappy drives, but so far, I've had great service.

Good luck with it...

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