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Don't make me assume my ultimate form!
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Reged: 05/03/04
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Loc: Outback, Australia
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Re: It's probly close to toast......
07/19/15 02:10 AM
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> Most (all?) drive manufacturers provide a bootable disk image that you can put on a
> flash drive or CD and use to test their hard drives.
Yes quite right.
For the case of my old laptop I mentioned above, I did the following:
* Backed up all my data / files.
* Ran ScanDisk / rebooted - Windows warnings about drive failure still appeared.
* Ran the drive manufacturers test / repair utils - Windows warnings about drive failure still appeared.
* Ran various other utils (SpinRite and several others) and poked around a hell of a lot - Windows warnings about drive failure still appeared.
* Deleted all partitions, repartitioned and fully reformatted and tried to install Windows again - Windows refused to install on the drive due to imminent failure.
* Install Fedora - no drive failure warnings popped up then or since. Been using it for ~5 years.  But, like I said, the laptop is only used occasionally.
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Re: It's probly close to toast......
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But, like I said, the laptop is only used occasionally.
