[nflug] HD Scan

Frank Kumro fkumro at gmail.com
Tue Jan 2 15:46:33 EST 2007


This laptop is about 1 year old and is a dell too...in your email you
said "so you know the hdd was refurbished". They put refurb hdd is new
computers? or was it purchased used? Just curious

On 1/2/07, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> Frank Kumro wrote:
> > The disc fails defrag and when I use the native disc checker it didnt
> > fix the problem that the defrag has
> >
> > Defrag said errors on disc run the check
> > Ran  the check and selected to fix all error
> > ran defrag again...same error
> >
> > Horrible performance ... ive used her computer a couple times and
> > recently its just painful. No matter what any program takes >30sec to
> > load...just horrible. Want to make sure the disc isnt dieing...
> >
> > On 1/2/07, Darin Perusich <Darin.Perusich at cognigencorp.com> wrote:
> >> don't use linux to scan the disk use the native windows tools like check
> >> disk and defrag. why figure out the problem if she's going to install
> >> linux anyways.
> >>
> >> Frank Kumro wrote:
> >> > My friend has a laptop running windows (yuck) and is having issues
> >> > with the hard drive. Is there a linux bootable cd that I can use to
> >> > check the hard drive for issues? Also after we figure out the problem
> >> > she is letting me put linux on it for her :)
> >> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> Darin Perusich
> >> Unix Systems Administrator
> >> Cognigen Corporation
> >> 395 Youngs Rd.
> >> Williamsville, NY 14221
> >> Phone: 716-633-3463
> >> Email: darinper at cognigencorp.com
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> >
> >
> Actually just got done with someone's who's laptop sounded much like
> your situation. Dell laptop that is about 1 1/2 yr old (30gb hdd) so you
> know the hdd was refurbished, etc.. Anyway, long story short, I did what
> I suggested, saw tons or seek errors, with knoppix, transferred all his
> data to our network and replaced the toasted drive. I've seen ALOT of
> drives get hammered by ntfs. ntfs is just downright cruel to drives,
> especially large partitions. All that fragmentation just kills them.
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