Or atleast that’s what it sounds like. It seems that my HDD of my Lenovo X61 is dying… A shame, especially if you consider that it contains my complete home lab within VMware workstation. Let’s just hope I can get this thing running again, but the “unmountable boot volume” makes me think I’m running out of luck. So just to be sure I’ll try to image my disk to another disk, and than do a repair with the Windows XP CD and let’s just see what it comes up with.
I think I will spend some time tomorrow on writing a backup script… which dumps my doc’s to my ftp server in a zipped file.
Once you mount it just get Mozy.
It will search everything out and give you an off site backup of them. Super easy and very reliable.
If you chose to replace the drive with a new one check with IBM about what is on their approved list–I put a new disk in my T43, and the firmware warns me EVERY TIME I reboot that the drive is not on the firmware white list, and may not perform properly.
Of course having a 250GiB internal drive is (barely) worth the hassle.
Regards,
Petro.