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2100: HDD0 Hard disk drive initialization error (1) & Thinkpad can't boot up
Refer to attached.
Occasionally (about 20-30% of the times) when I tried to boot up my laptop,
it will give the attached screen error within 3-5 seconds after powering
up my X61
Usually I would power it off & power on & it would be able to boot up
on Win XP Professional SP3 again.
Q1:
What's the cause?
Q2:
Is this is a hardware or software issue?
Q3:
Other than reinstall the entire OS (which I wanted to avoid as I don't want all
my apps to be gone as I think reinstall will require the apps to be reinstalled?),
what else can I do to remedy this?
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Aaron Tomosky
Consumer harddrives only last about 5 years. Since you are running xp I'll guess you are around that time. Totally normal.
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FYI - Failing drives don't always report SMART errors
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I installed the DiskCheckup suggested by DrKlahn,
ran a "Disk self test" & result is no error detected : refer to attached screen
The next attachment showed the SMART Info
So does it tell me anything is wrong?
Reinstalling is probably one way but I don't want to have to reinstall my 30 odd
apps/tools/patches after reinstalling Win XP.
Oh yes, when I first got this laptop, it's been previously used by someone, so
I did an Acronis restore (from my previous X61 Thinkpad which is of the exact
model as this one which I just go)
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Our IT just swapped the HDD & reinstalled the OS yest'day (Win XP SP3)
& we'll see how it goes the next few days
with a new disk and OS you should have no more problems
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Yep, this problem doesn't resurface anymore with a new
HDD & Win XP reinstalled but alas, all my 30 apps (MSOfc,
SnagIt, Visio, Nero, Netsetman, putty, winscp, IE8, Chrome,
Firefox (& browsers favorites), PowerShell, etc etc had to be
reinstalled which is rather painful. If only there's a freeware
that could enable me to migrate those apps over to the newly
installed OS
HDD & Win XP reinstalled but alas, all my 30 apps (MSOfc,
SnagIt, Visio, Nero, Netsetman, putty, winscp, IE8, Chrome,
Firefox (& browsers favorites), PowerShell, etc etc had to be
reinstalled which is rather painful. If only there's a freeware
that could enable me to migrate those apps over to the newly
installed OS
you can't tansfer apps from a bad drive
but you can from a good one (not free) : http://www.laplink.com/pcmover/pcmover.html
but you can from a good one (not free) : http://www.laplink.com/pcmover/pcmover.html