Re: Bad Sectors - Now Warning from XP!
From: William B. Lurie (billurie_at_nospam.org)
Date: 11/29/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 08:19:14 -0500
Hey, why would you bother? David is obviously a nerd who
didn't even understand the question!
johnf wrote:
> Hey, David, at least re-type it in Okker! Even I'm having trouble following
> that reply.
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> johnf
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>>Well you must be really dumb as you are an idiot know and in twenty
>>years you haven't learnt a single thing except to waste others time
>>with your stupidity whech you seem proud off.
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>>"William B. Lurie" <billurie@nospam.org> wrote in message
>>news:O7ofpjZ1EHA.3588@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
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>>>Sort of bearing on this same subject, I'd extend it a bit, to ask why,
>>>since XP 'knows' there are bad sectors, and is really wonderfully
>>>smart, couldn't it just go ahead and fix them?
>>>
>>>Personally, I'm a little old-fashioned. It was less than 20
>>>years ago that, when you bought a PC, a hard-disk drive was
>>>an expensive 'optional extra'.... and I finally sprung for one.
>>>It had a capacity of TEN MEGABYTES! Today's ubiquitous drives have
>>>a thousand times as much storage, and more. But I'm awfully nervous
>>>about the actual reliability of these monsters. Statistically, it
>>>doesn't take much of an imperfection to turn into 'bad sectors'.
>>>Bill Lurie
>>>
>>>Moshup Trail wrote:
>>>
>>>>My mother brought her PC to me at Thanksgiving. It was displaying a
>>>>number of problems. When trying to run a program she got missing DLL
>>>>errors. When trying to upgrade to SP2 the download seemed to be
>>>>corrupt and we kept getting "cannot copy file" errors during the
>>>>backup phase. Also, it seemed to be running very slowly. When we
>>>>tried to run the disk defragger utility it quit very quickly with no
>>>>explanation, and no defrag.
>>>>
>>>>After many hours I finally began to realize that all these problems
>>>>pointed to likely bad sectors on the HD. So I ran the chkdsk utility
>>>>in the repair mode and it found numerous bad sectors on the HD and
>>>>told me it was repairing each one.
>>>>
>>>>My questions: 1. If bad sectors are so bad (and they are!) why
>>>>doesn't XP tell you sooner that you have a problem? There was almost
>>>>no warning about this except the "cannot copy file" errors. Yet XP
>>>>had many opportunities to let us know...
>>>>
>>>>2. Also, when chkdsk said it was "repairing" sectors, did it REALLY
>>>>restore the data? Or did it just mark the sector bad and replace it?
>>>>
>>>>3. This is the second PC she's had this problem with (it's a Dell). I
>>>>am using her first PC that had the problem - an old IBM PC 1410 and
>>>>the HD has not deteriorated. Could she be doing something that would
>>>>cause it, or taking thePC to places that would cause "bad sectors"?
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> William B. Lurie
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