Compaq N600c

A Compaq N600c laptop came in for repair recently. The laptop itself was in great shape but it had an error booting in to Windows 2000.

A drive fitness test revealed that the hard drive in the machine had bad sectors. This basically means that the hard drive was bad. The user's data (in this case) was salvageable.

Bad hard drives are common in laptops. The drives have parts moving in them at up to 7,200RPM (at this point in time, someday they're be faster and using a different technology). laptops get bumped and moved around often which results in wear and tear, kind of like the moving parts on your car, like the tires. Well, maybe that isn't a great analogy, but anyways...

After being given the sizes and pricing our customer went with a 30GB hard drive. We installed Win2000 back on to his unit along with all of the drivers.