Then it's just another case of people neglecting to change the subject line.
No, you will have a hard time convincing me a fan of any type could vibrate enough to cause an r/w error on a drive. But be aware - cosmic rays *can* cause errors. Not as many as 'normal' causes, but surely it happens. Anyway, that's what chkdsk is for. If my systems crash suddenly for any reason, I run a full chkdsk on all the drives afterwards. On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Fred Holmes <[email protected]> wrote: > At 10:35 AM 8/22/2009, Tony B wrote: > >Certainly neither of you is suggesting his slow boot has to do with his > >drive being vibrated by a fan???? > > Not directly, but fan vibration could cause an imperfect write leading to > later slow reads. If the reads are part of the boot process, then the boot > process would be slowed. > > In my case, a particular application was very slow to load. (not a boot > process load) Spinrite cleaned up the disk and cured the slow load. I'm > speculating that the slow read of the executable file was due to a bad write > in the past, caused by fan vibration. Fan is in the docking station > enclosure of the hard drive. "Mobile Rack" > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
