How to test the hard driver of T43?

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hicharlie · #1 Post by **hicharlie** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:09 am

Hi, all.
yesterday, i dropped my laptop package from chair to the group.(about 1.8 feet high). fortunately, when i turned it on, it could still work. but the speed became very slow, especially when i copy or read large files. I think maybe the hard driver was broken. I runned chkdsk.exe and it fixed some errors , then i used PC-Doctor to run a full hard disk test, and it reported okay. but hard driver speed is still very slow.
Can anyone recommend a software to test and repair the hard driver? Can i get it fixed from lenovo without any fee?

#2 Post by **BillMorrow** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:14 am

drive fitness test..

but if you had bad sectors where none formerly existed, then i would first do a backup..
THEN run the test and even if drive fitness test shows the drive to be OK, i would prepare to have the drive replaced..

was the drive running when the machine hit the floor..?

LtTPfan · #3 Post by **LtTPfan** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:16 am

Hitachi's Drive Fitness Test

hicharlie · #4 Post by **hicharlie** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:06 am

i've tried drive fitness test , it showed OK
but the drive speed is still slower than normal.
It wasn't running when hit.
thanks a lot. i've backuped my files. But I'm afraid the problem is underlying and it is not easy to be detected. So Lenovo won't replace the drive.

BillMorrow wrote:drive fitness test..

but if you had bad sectors where none formerly existed, then i would first do a backup..
THEN run the test and even if drive fitness test shows the drive to be OK, i would prepare to have the drive replaced..

was the drive running when the machine hit the floor..?

LtTPfan · #5 Post by **LtTPfan** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:16 am

Try calling them and tell'm your machine won't boot at all now, that you just get a code 0200.

They should then send you a new drive. Do a low-level format before you return your old one. (BTW, if they start asking you questions you're not comfortable with, or asking you to perform certain tests, etc, just tell them you don't have your machine handy or "accidently" hang up on them. Return here and let us know what they ask of you and we can feed you the proper responses.)

dsvochak · #6 Post by **dsvochak** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:50 am

Try calling them and tell'm your machine won't boot at all now, that you just get a code 0200.......

I'm assuming the entire comment is meant in jest.

powerant · #7 Post by **powerant** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:55 pm

maybe you can refix the hd driver and then test it with hdtune.
Good luck

hicharlie · #8 Post by **hicharlie** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 1:06 am

i've tried hdtune,
the transfer rate is like this:
minimum 1.7MB/sec
maximum 2.4MB/sec
average 2.3MB/sec
Acess 16.9ms
Burst 2.4MB/sec
CPU Usage 90.1%

Is it normal? My HDD is HTS541060G9AT00

powerant wrote:maybe you can refix the hd driver and then test it with hdtune.
Good luck

hicharlie · #9 Post by **hicharlie** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 2:34 am

Thanks for all your help,
I've solved the problem.

The IDE transfer mode was set to PIO automatically by windows after it found some HDD errors. I'd reset the error counters by change the registry. then restart, then the IDE transfer rate was changed back to DMA(Ultra DMA Mode 5), everything became normal now.

How to test the hard driver of T43?

How to test the hard driver of T43?

you can use HDtune to test it

Re: you can use HDtune to test it

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