"Adam" <news@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:38a95255-c594-4f5a-ac8e-5123bddb92e1@xxxxxx
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> as I
> had to use it when one of my Raptors was showing a SMART error. I must
> have
> used the CD image, as I do not have a floppy drive on my main desktop PC,
> and it was before I bought a USB floppy drive. I /may/ have used the UBCD,
> but I doubt it. It may be worth you trying it though.
>
> http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Great, thanks for that. Although none of the three WD apps on that CD
worked (one caused a kernel panic, one just hangs half way through the
licence screen and the last one can't find a disc to check), I finally
got ViVard working and did a complete check of the disc surface
without any problems showing up
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No problem. I just thought of a reason why the other apps were not working
on your laptop. They may need the SATA controller be put in Legacy IDE
mode, so that the controller pretends to the OS (in this case the DOS or
Linux based OSs on the CD) that the drives are IDE drives. That may be
necessary for the Floppy Emulation to work, but I am not certain. I am also
not sure that doing this is even possible on the ThinkPad BIOS (my X31 and
X40 have IDE drives). Most probably not.
ss.