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re: Slower than slow -- Thorough option
Tuesday, September 20, 2005 at 8:31 pm
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Posted by fpl001 (4 messages posted)

I finally got scandisk to run. I booted to a startup disk and ran it from there. I reported a slow response to a sector. After repairing it there was no improvement. Sooooo. I replaced the drive and all is well now...Just have a lot of software to reinstall. Thanks for all the help!

On Friday, September 16, 2005 at 12:20 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>||If it is an older drive it may just be getting near to the end of [its] life.
>|| Mac
>
>|Is this a typical behavior for an older drive to start running sluggish?
>| fpl001
>
>As Mac has said, these things are highly variable.
>
>The best time to start a Scandisk is before you go to bed
>(or before you go home, if it's a work PC).
>
>If Mac's conjecture is correct, the easy way way to find out
>is to do a Scandisk with the Thorough option enabled.
>It will mark flakey sectors as Bad.
>
>This will take even longer than what you are experiencing now,
>making my *during idle time* suggestion even more apt.

Written in response to:: re: Slower than slow -- Thorough option (gewg_: Friday, September 16, 2005 at 12:20 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]

Slower than slow (fpl001: Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 6:40 am)

re: Slower than slow (Cam: Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 8:56 am)

re: Slower than slow (fpl001: Thu, Sep 15, 2005, 6:14 pm)

re: Slower than slow (Cam: Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 12:19 am)

re: Slower than slow (fpl001: Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 6:47 am)

re: Slower than slow (Cam: Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 9:15 am)

re: Slower than slow -- Thorough option (gewg_: Fri, Sep 16, 2005, 12:20 pm)

re: Slower than slow -- Thorough option (fpl001: Tue, Sep 20, 2005, 8:31 pm)

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