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Hard drive wrecked by software, possible?

cmarquezcmarquez
in Hardware

Hello community,

I have a 1996 IBM ThinkPad 760L, completely functional with IBM PC DOS 7.0 Rev 0 and Windows 3.11 for Workgroups (all English). A few days ago, I was playing a game (Operation: Inner Space) in the usual way when all of a sudden, it froze the notebook. I had to restart it and found that my hard disk died with an error code 174 (Hard drive failure). Now, today I received a spare hard disk which turned out to be the same model and size and my ThinkPad is back and running up again.

Is it possible indeed that a software, anything like a computer game or an enterprise application can damage the disk itself by any means? Now, I know the game in question is sometimes unstable but at most it crashed Windows and had to restart. But to destroy a hard disk? It left me wondering...

Thank you.

Comments

  • roboboxrobobox

    It could be that the game wrote so much to the hard disk and the age of the disk could have caused it to die. Or it was just really old.

  • Lenovo1984Lenovo1984

    No, it is much more likely that your drive died because of age.

  • cmarquezcmarquez

    Curious indeed. Age and luck are factors in these situations.

    Funny that a Compaq Contura hard disk from February '94 is still up and running with no issues while a ThinkPad 760 hard disk from October '96 went belly up and shitted its pants.

    Thanks both of you for the help.

  • TheTechWiz25TheTechWiz25

    Its probably because IBM doesn't have as good hard drives as Compaq do

  • grefdsasdgrefdsasd
    Compaq made a reputation back then and manage to keep it up. They have a lot to learn, it's time for ThinkPads to sign up for the course lol.
  • SamirDSamirD
    Definitely just a failed drive. It happens. It still happens today. It will probably happen in the future. Always back up!
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