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Hard drive crashed and burned
After some problems yesterday with my laptop doing some really weird stuff I decided to factory default for the 4th time as the drive has played up in the past though the dealers deny anything being wrong with it.
Have tried said factory default this morning and the machine starts up "loads" Windows then goes to a screen that says an error has occurred.
It reads
ERROR:F3-F200-0002 and then tells me to switch of the machine.
I have tried booting with a rescue disk done in January but same thing happens.
So looks like a trip to the dealer on Monday and I am not holding my breath there as I did buy an extra two years warranty.
However Toshiba in Sydney apparently did not get the extra warranty card I sent off when I bought it. So it looks like I shall have to rely on the dealer doing the right thing and contacting them to get my extra warranty honoured.
I suppose if they (the dealer as they have the receipt for the warranty) do not honour the warranty I'll have to buy another drive not that it would be that expensive but also the OS which is of course.
Well thats the plan of action unless someone can come up with a way of getting it to go in some fashion that is beyond anything that I can think of.
Add: If II do have to replace the drive myself that will be a 2.5" one won't it? and do you reckon I could get away with an OEM for the OS?? - Win 7??