Yep, it looks like my replacement Toshiba laptop hard disk from February is failing. It’s doing the same song and dance. It’s making some rather disturbing noises. I suspect within two weeks, like the previous hard disk, this one will simply stop spinning up. No disk I/O errors, yet, but they’ll be soon to come. I have already contacted Toshiba’s RMA department. I hope my replacement is still under warranty.
It’s so sad that this just happened to my original Toshiba laptop disk from Spring of 2003. The one from February didn’t even last six months.
I guess I shouldn’t have sold my Fujitsu 4.8GB that was originally in my laptop when I ordered it from Dell. Oops. Spares are your friend. (Witness my recent failed RAM for the value of cold spares.)