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Well Yesterday I started having some issues on my personal notebook... Today it became so bad that I couldn't use Outlook or even delete items off the desktop. I have never dropped or spilt anything on this notebook and the hard drive is exactly one year old. I powered the system down for several hours and when I turned it back on I see this screen.



The hard drive is a Fujitsu MHT2040BHTBD model.

Several reviews were on there and a number of other mission critical items.

Can't win them all...

Well I got really lucky on this one.... I removed my hard drive from my system and it was of course one of the new serial ATA hard drives that I use in the laptop build guides. I was able to install it on my Intel test platform using standard SATA power and data cables to the Intel 965 test system. I was able to run some HDD repair programs on the drive to repair the damaged spots and then ran the usual check disk and defragment utilities in Windows. I then was able to run scanpst.exe to repair the corrupted outlook folder and was able to backup and get off all my e-mails.

While my drive is going out i managed to get everything I need off because it's a SATA drive!

+1 for SATA notebook hard drives!

alright!!! That is kind of scary because i have a travelstar 80gig 7200rpm in mine. Kind of nice to know though that some work can get things back for backup at least. I wonder how a freezer mod would have been on a tiny drive like that?

smart never works for me, either i get a smart error and nothing ever happens or i dont get a smart error and the bad blocks start appearing. Generaly i just run the MFG's utilitiy to see if there are bad blocks, if not i keep using the drive and dissable smart.