A while ago I pinged the list about some weird freezes that were happening every 20 min or so with my machine. After taking the advice of the list I looked into the hard disk. I let Spinrite work its magic over night and voila, the freezing has stopped. However, I am still experiencing some weird HD issues so I decided to get a new drive.
My plan was to just clone my existing disk structure over to the new one. Hooked up the new drive, fired up Acronis, and told it to clone my disk to the new one. It rebooted and loaded up its runtime version. It took a minute to check the drive, then reported it had finished the cloning and I was to reboot. Of course it did no such thing and there was nothing on the new drive. Could there be some sort of HD error that prevented it from doing the copy? I ran chkdisk on all the partitions and other than taking quite a while (about 10 min) to work its way through the index for my boot partition (20 GB), it reported no errors. I have tried the Acronis tool a couple times now and still the same result. I tried the gparted live CD but had a problem with it not liking my mouse and freezing up. Any other tools out there that I can try or any suggestions as to what could be preventing Acronis (usually a good tool) from doing its job? BTW, aside from really slow loading of large files (like slowdowns during texture swapping in games) the HD runs just fine. I am trying to replace it before any serious problems pop up. -- Brian
