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Ass_Issues




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PostPosted: Mon, 25th Feb 2008 23:59    Post subject: Need some opinions bout HD probs
Howdy folks, heres the deal.

While back my shit crashed, and found there suddenly were some bad HD blocks. SD fixed it, and was back to norm. The other day, I was doing a major clean up job, and halfway through uninstalling some shit, the puter froze. It took forever to reboot, so I ran SD, and it said some volumes could not be read. It went through the gammit, and said it was all clean, so I reboot, it took forever again, and went to defrag, and was told it couldnt DF because it found HD errors, so I go back to SD for the same run, but seamingly a different batch of errors. After it finally boots it seems to work "fine". Should I be preparing for emegency evacuation? That is my fear. BTW its Seagate 160 G IDE Fairly new compared to all my others which never had probs cept for outdated.
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s_hole




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PostPosted: Tue, 26th Feb 2008 15:39    Post subject:
oh dear
the red emergency lights should be spinning the second a bad sector is sighted
and especially if it's already causing crashes
and the LAST thing you EVER want to do to a disk with bad sectors is defrag
it's like shooting it with a shotgun
get a new drive and backup everything and RMA the drive, if warranty is still valid (probably is.. they're fairly long these days for HDs)
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SpykeZ




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PostPosted: Tue, 26th Feb 2008 16:03    Post subject:
Sounds like a bad HD to me. Get hiren's boot cd (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd) and run it at bootup, it has some tools to check the integrity of your HD's
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Mortibus




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PostPosted: Tue, 26th Feb 2008 16:10    Post subject:
hd's are utterly cheap this days

i advice u to get new one if there is some valuble stuff on your old one

i can get used 160gb for 30e, but i'd rather add another 60e and get new 500gb instead
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vinniec7




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Location: USA
PostPosted: Tue, 26th Feb 2008 17:58    Post subject:
From past experience you might want to try changing the hard drive data cable first and rerun your test , it's a small possibility but worth it in the long run. it's good to be sure...

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