Ok, I cracked open the case, it's a Western Digital Caviar SE drive, so I went to their website, but couldn't find any link to a test.
Paul M. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bones" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 6:39 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 36861] Re: OT- Getting a goofy error message > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
