[NTLUG:Discuss] Not necessarily a Linux question

[Travis Bell]

On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 10:33:31AM -0500, Dennis Myhand wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
<snip>
> I have received a 20 gig Western Digital Harddrive formatted NTFS which,
> when I set it up in a machine, is detected by the bios, but when it
> comes time to boot, gives the error:
> "Stage1 Hard Drive Failure"
> 
> My question is, is this fixable, or is it really, really bad.  As an
> aside to Linux, I have recompiled the 2.4.2 kernel to read NTFS and I
> can mount the harddrive and read it just fine.  It simply will not boot.
> 
> Thanks, Dennis in Waco

If you want to know whether the drive is bad or not, go to WD's website
and download their diagnostic utility.  You'll need to do this anyway if
it's still under warranty (and a 20gig is new enough that it will be) as
they require the printout from that diagnostic utility to have it RMA'd.

Good luck

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