T43 (Type 1871) HDD service life

[cigtoxdoc]

We have a refurbished T43 that we purchased last year. HDD service life has been about three months. Fortunately, we purchased the service contract (Lenovo) as current HDD just gave a boot failure. Lenovo has another HDD on the way to us, but there is the costs of recovering data and reloading software and data on new drive.

Any suggestions?

John

[Brad]

Sorry to hear of your hard drive failure.

Now would be the time to implement your backup strategy.

You could install the hard drive in a USB enclosure and attempt to recover your data.

Unfortunately hardware failures happen and as far as I know Lenovo or any other manufacturer for that matter does not cover your recovery costs.

Brad

[cigtoxdoc]

We know from last time that we can get the files since last backup using rescue and recovery cd; however, it won't boot from rescue and recovery cd.

Hope that our CD drive is not bad, too.

John