IF it is a old quantum Bigfoot Hard Drive 51/4 size factor they had a 7 out
of 10 failure rate.
I bought 6 of the 6.4 gig ones a while back all six failed within the first
10 months.
Then the RMA lasted about 1 year again failed.
Last RMA they went out within 3 to 5 months except 1.
MB's bought 200 of them returned 186 of them.
The 3 1/5 inch Fireballs were much more reliable.
How ever I have had best luck with WD drives.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Ostrowsky <ostrowb@tblc.org>
To: SLUG <slug@nks.net>
Date: Monday, July 15, 2002 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hard Drive Repair
>Brings up a related question for me:
>
>I plugged my printer into my fiancee's computer and restarted the
>computer. It never rebooted. No POST, no video. Did I mention this
>was the week she had to do a project in Office 2000? (The community
>college teaches a class *about* Office 2000 -- or else I'd have showed
>her how to use OpenOffice.org.)
>
>I've finally had a chance to build her a new computer. (She used my
>computer for the project.) Everything's going well. I power down, add
>her old hard drive on secondary IDE, and... no POST, no video!
>
>How on earth can a hard drive make a computer not boot? I'm guessing
>that if I put a different hard drive in her HP, it'd at least POST.
>
>And is there any hope of getting this old Quantum full-height drive to
>work again, or does this sound like a doorstop?
>
>Ben
>
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