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Lord Nightmare Speech Synth Berzerker Reged: 03/08/04 Posts: 855 Loc: PA, USA Send PM Re: Laptop HD is failing, will external drive be fine? 07/18/15 12:47 AM Reply IMHO the very first thing you should do on a disk which gives SMART errors or other random read errors is use ddrescue to back the entire thing up to another hard drive as an image file. Once you have a backup, you can start dicking around with the original disk to see if its a transient issue (caused by bad powerdown or something) or a head crash etc. LN "When life gives you zombies... *CHA-CHIK!* ...you make zombie-ade!"

Entire thread Subject Posted by Posted on [Done] Laptop HD is failing, will external drive be fine? Traso 07/17/15 08:46 PM Re: Laptop HD is failing, will external drive be fine? Moose  07/17/15 11:55 PM Re: Laptop HD is failing, will external drive be fine? Lord Nightmare  07/18/15 12:47 AM Re: Laptop HD is failing, will external drive be fine? Traso  07/18/15 07:37 AM It's probly close to toast...... Traso  07/18/15 10:48 PM Re: It's probly close to toast...... redk9258  07/19/15 04:48 AM Re: It's probly close to toast...... Dullaron  07/19/15 06:03 AM Re: It's probly close to toast...... redk9258  07/19/15 03:52 PM Re: It's probly close to toast...... Traso  07/20/15 10:16 PM Success! Traso  07/29/15 01:37 AM Re: It's probly close to toast...... URherenow  07/19/15 07:31 AM Re: It's probly close to toast...... Vas Crabb  07/19/15 05:15 PM Re: It's probly close to toast...... Sune  07/18/15 11:18 PM Re: It's probly close to toast...... Moose  07/19/15 02:10 AM

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