| BigWill |
| (Gorgeous oversensitive Nikon-loving cream puff) |
| 26/06/2008 14:18 |
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Re: How to deal with failed hard drive...
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Thanks for the replies. Well the disk check has now finished and I am writing this from the laptop - seems almost as good as it was before! There are various programmes which won't work and the sound is shot though.
I ran the 'error check' on the c drive and it just came back saying 'check complete' - no info on if there were any bad sectors etc. Running defrag now but still don't really have any confidence in the drive.
I also can't find my repair cd - so I think I will get a new drive, up the RAM whilst I'm at it and just buy a new copy of XP and be done with it. Like you say will mean I have to spend a while re-installing everything but I really have no confidence in this hard drive now!
Weird that it seems to be working ok now though...
Anyway thanks for the advice so far.
Graham
"chkdsk" does it's best to repair bad sectors on the hard disk which is why it's probably working now but it's usually an imminent sign of disk failure if you start getting bad clusters on the disk so I'd go ahead with the plan to replace the drive before it lets you down again.
BigWill
P.S. Try ebay for an OEM copy of windows, much cheaper than your local computer store and does the job just the same!