Paul, don't get too excited about ditching your hard drive until you test it. Whatever the brand is, you can go to the manufacturers website and download a piece of software to run a test on the drive to see if it has bad sectors and is about to fail. Seagate, Western Digital, Samsung, whatever, there is a manufacturers tool to test it. The fact that one file couldn't be opened doesn't necessarily mean the drive is about to go lunch itself although it is possible, and all the advice that has been offered here is valid and needs to be considered. However...test the drive first. Most of the software runs in Windoze but some also can be run from a bootable CD and so is OS independant. If there is even one bad sector then you can kiss the drive adios in the long term as it will continue to degrade until it's lights out and Goodnight Gracie for Mr Harddrive. If you need any websites or stuff just send me an email.
Bones On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 11:55 -0700, [email protected] wrote: -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. > > Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 1:40 PM > > Gee, Thanks for the good news, Jon. <VBG?> I guess I can back > up all my stuff to my wife's computer until I can get a new > hard drive... > > Paul M. > -- Whan that swithin potrzebie, The burgid prillie giben heebie-jeebie -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
