re: Erunt and DriveImage backups suddenly taking 10 times longer!
Monday, May 11, 2009 at 6:00 pm
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Posted by normanw
(1284 messages posted)
Than you for the feedback. I could well be of help
toother posters in future.
On Monday, May 11, 2009 at 2:52 am, raminder singh wrote:
>As stated in my final report, I had decided to live with the Event 11 disk errors
>I was getting in the Event viewer. But their number slowly increased and I also
started
>getting STOP errors, regularly. At that point I invoked the warranty and called
the
>IBM service engineer.
>
>The service engineer was initially not convinced that Event 11 disk errors meant
>a damaged hard disk. He wanted to clean install XP with a genuine CD first. I let
>him do this since I had images of the whole drive stored in an external drive. Event
>11 errors appeared in the fresh installation right away, but he wanted me also to
>check for STOP errors. These also appeared the next day! I was then provided with
>a temporary replacement HDD on which a clean install of XP was done. No event 11
>or STOP errors appeared on this installation, at which point he accepted that the
>original disk was indeed damaged in some subtle way. It will be replaced in a few
>days.
>
>Interestingly, a couple of days ago the BIOS failed, and it turns out that the mother
>board also needs to be replaced! A swollen capacitor was found on the mother board.
>This too will be replaced.
>
>I have been a bit unlucky with this machine.
>
>Raminder Singh
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