Hello Mansoor Butt, at 04:47 AM 6/30/98 +0500 you wrote:

>Hello , I'm new to the list. My hard disk is not showing good signs. After
>every few weeks it gives the message "primary hdc failure. press f1 to
>resume" on boot up. I pull the power cable to the hard disk and place it
>back and the problem goes away but after a week or two again the same
>problem. Also the light of the hard disk goes on even when nothing is being
>read or written to the disk. When I turn the computer on the light of the
>hd goes on at once and  remains on till well after win95 is loaded. Also
>when I shut down the computer the hd light remains on for about 15 seconds
>even after the "it is now safe to shutdown your computer" message. Is this
>some thing to worry about. My hard disk is seagate 1.2 GB.

  I hate to tell you this, but the first time it broke down and you were
able to get it running was a stroke of luck.  I myself would have copied
the data off of the disk to another media and get the drive replaced.

  If the hd is working and you do not see a problem in the accessing, no, I
have seen it happen to Seagate and Fujitsu hard drives all of the time.  I
recommend that you get the hard drive replaced, either buy a new one or get
it replaced under warrantee.

Regards,


Tim Lider
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