could my laptop be eating hard drives?

[colm_mcm]

Have a HP pavillion and it had a hard disk problem (made worse by me powering it down every time it froze)
anyway there was an arror like hard drive error #1-04
swapped the hard drive with my other old Pavillion and a emssage came up saying imminent hard drive failure
ran a scan on the drive i'd just put in and the same error came up

did i just break another hard drive?

[gfalls]

Its more likely to be a problem with the controller on the motherboard. HP are know for their rack of dodgy boards a few years back.

[colm_mcm]

oh christ, looks like I'll be using the mobo from the old one, swapping over the better RAM, processor and cards, yipee.

[gfalls]

oh christ, looks like I'll be using the mobo from the old one, swapping over the better RAM, processor and cards, yipee.

That would be the way to go alright..

[colm_mcm]

do you know when you just can't be arsed to do something.....

might attack it today