Mingon: You obviously haven't had to format one after two years! :Q
I've had to put reinstall Windows on about 5 laptops in the last 6 months, and EVER SINGLE ONE with a Fujitsu or Toshiba drive crashes Scandisk, and crashes during a reformat, and crashes during a pratition leaving a totally dea disk. The only work-around I've found is to use trial and error to get a partition to a siz that doesn't cross the screwed up part, and hope that it's big enough to install Windows on. Have you ever tried to find a replacement for one of these? Up to $400 for a 1.1GB or $600 for a 5GB drive! :Q My friend's Toshiba has 4 partitions in 1.1GBs because of this :| Now, IBM isn't any better, except you can actually detect the error without crashing the PC! Or formatting, or repartitioning, etc. IBM Drive Fitness Test interfaces with the drive controller's electronics for the diagnostics, and can actually fix bad sectors by remapping them to spares! This doesn't mean you won't loose your data on the recent ones, I've already had three crash! One 32GB Travelstar died and took my system backup with it while I was formatting my main PC :| I Lost EVERYTHING. Then, Compaq sent me the wrong drive back in the laptop, a travelstar 18GB or something that died before I could even send it back! Now, it's a Toshiba and it hasn't had any problems, but then again, I may never know until I format! Then I ordered a Dell Inspiron 8100 with the 40GB 5400RPM Travelstar and it died too (But the motherboard was bad when they sent it! The display was all garbled and whatever did this probably fried the HDD). So don't trust IBM Travelstar's, but don't get anything else! At least you know when they go bad...
