From: James H. E. Maugham (CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 10:52:37 EDT
Michelle,
Michelle Klein-Hass [mailto:bosslady_at_msgeek.com] wrote:
> The hard drive goes "ka-CHUNK, ka-CHUNK, ka-CHUNK" and you see a BSOD
> saying "cannot write to drive" and that's a SOFTWARE problem????
>
> C'mon, dude...I had that happen ONCE to me, and it was a dying
> Quantum/Apple HD in my Performa 460.
>
> That's gotta be a hardware problem.
I agree that it certainly sounds like a hardware problem, but after THREE new
drives he still gets the same sturm und drang?
Some of the "Utilities" from Mr. Norton will cause similar noises to emanate
>from a drive and I have seen "cannot write to D:" error messages due to
incompatibilities between FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS under various OS.
My point was that you can't automatically rule the software out of the equation,
especially since, IIRC, we weren't given _any_ info on the OS or what he's
running on this system.
Regards,
James
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