FYI. if your transfer speeds to the pc are slow ( ~100k/s) you may want to make sure your pc is running your hdd is in DMA mode. my lappy hasn't been running the best, but it was only when I got my tp2 and started transfering files off/on my card and getting rediculously slow speads that I googled and was told to check that. indead my IDE controlers were set to PIO.
I'm sure it was due to me trying to recover a scratched dvd.
normally I wouldn't post such info here, but I belive there have to be at least a few visitors here that will encounter the same.