I have myself recieved this "1720".
Here is the story:
My friend recently recieved a new hard drive under warrenty as his ol
one did die. No files where accessable and the hard drive was no
recogognised on his or my computer. He has since recieved a new har
drive under warrenty, 10 gig's bigger
i might add.
His old Hard drive came with Windows ME installed in his Compaq 4100C
Presario. I had installed Windows XP for him a few months back.
2 weeks ago he had purchased a new stick of ram and installed i
himself. After doing so he recieved a missing NTLDR error and the O
would not boot. I tried unsuccessfuly to repair the boot files as
know how to do this. After a few more restarts the hard drive wa
undedectable. No OP found. Windows ME boot disk could not reformat th
drive as no drive was found. My comp would not start up when connectin
the drive as secondary. The drive was dead.
Now he had a new drive under warrenty. He also took back and exchange
the RAM he had bought Yet the new drive came only with Windows 98. No
Me. So again I installed XP. But unfortunatly I forgot to initiate th
XP firewall before connecting to the Internet and he was immediatl
infected with the MSBlaster virus. I had removed the virus. Yet, soo
after, his computer restarted spontaniously and then recieved the erro
"1720".
So the question is... could the virus (software) damage the Dis
(hardware)? I think not. But to the person who started this post,
seem to have the same problem.
Could it be the ram? Motherboard? I am not to worried, as he can get
new drive under warrenty.. but if they where stupid enough to jus
replace the drive when it was the ram or somthing else..he is afraid t
go yet another 2 weeks without his comp as hes a student.
Any feedback would be appreciated
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SpiderSpawn