HDD Failure on C253 CD00F

[habik]

Can I use any 2.5" HDD available on market? or it HAS to be KM? Any suggestions welcome. Thanks !

I think it should not matter or is there something special about them?

[Dickie]

[emujo]

Re: HDD Failure on C253 CD00F

You can purchase a drive from any retailer and use it...my only advice would be to not try a drive that has been used in another vendor, or formatted with Linux. Emujo

[EarthKmTech]

Re: HDD Failure on C253 CD00F

I have experience with this one, in my past work place we used non genuine drives purchased from a computer store, and in most machines that was never a problem.

however, on the c353 that we had a hard drive failure on, the error code would come back once every 48 hours with the new non genuine drive after setting it all up perfectly. Tried yet another new drive, all set up and working perfectly, the same thing happened. This machine did a hell of a lot of faxing which may be related.

we ended up caving in and purchasing the way more expensive, km issued spare part drive and the problem went away forever. I beleive the issue was that the machine uses a hard drive thats basically no longer available in such a small capacity, the ones we were trying were slightly larger at the time.. Now you'd have no chance in hell of finding a new hard drive of the same size at a computer store..

[emujo]

Re: HDD Failure on C253 CD00F

I have experience with this one, in my past work place we used non genuine drives purchased from a computer store, and in most machines that was never a problem.

however, on the c353 that we had a hard drive failure on, the error code would come back once every 48 hours with the new non genuine drive after setting it all up perfectly. Tried yet another new drive, all set up and working perfectly, the same thing happened. This machine did a hell of a lot of faxing which may be related.

we ended up caving in and purchasing the way more expensive, km issued spare part drive and the problem went away forever. I beleive the issue was that the machine uses a hard drive thats basically no longer available in such a small capacity, the ones we were trying were slightly larger at the time.. Now you'd have no chance in hell of finding a new hard drive of the same size at a computer store..

You may be correct on the drive size issue, but there is nothing loaded on the drive purchased from KM. Emujo

[EarthKmTech]

Re: HDD Failure on C253 CD00F

we put it down to the size, as all hard drives needed to be formatted to work anyway.

[habik]

Re: HDD Failure on C253 CD00F

[habik]

Re: HDD Failure on C253 CD00F

You can purchase a drive from any retailer and use it...my only advice would be to not try a drive that has been used in another vendor, or formatted with Linux. Emujo

Thank you, Emujo. I'll give it a bash. Will keep this thread posted what happened.

I'll try to resource the Hitachi drive Xfingers

[habik]

Re: HDD Failure on C253 CD00F

maybe lucky there are some on EBAY, however I think I got 60GB in +253

Hitachi Travelstar 40GB 2.5" IDE Laptop Hard Drive | eBay