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Duff Hard Drive ?

  • 08-07-2009 3:15pm
    #1
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭


    My laptop is giving some trouble and I suspect it may be the hard drive.
    It started by giving "disk read errors".
    I decided to reinstall winXP home from the disk but error was that drive couldnt be formatted.
    After many attempts, and removing reinstalling the hard drive I eventually got the winxp loaded but it is verrry slow to boot up.. Also the drive is noiser than before..
    Could the hard drive be duff ?

    The laptop was booting up well and running OK, 1G RAM installed processer is 1.8Ghz Pentium M processor..

    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Duff.

    Copy your rat-files now. This be a sinking ship, matey.


  • #3
    polyfusion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭polyfusion


    Yeah, back up your stuff pronto, then install something like diskcheckup, and see how the software evaluates it. Particularly look at the reallocated sector count value. It's time may be limited, so keep the computer on until you at least have your docs/etc safe.


  • #4
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    OK..
    I installed diskcheckup..
    Reallocated Sector Count comes in as a FAIL...
    Raw Value = 0
    Status = Fail
    Value = 1
    Worst = 1
    Threshold = 5

    Is this confirmation its the hard drive that's my problem ?


  • #5
    polyfusion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭polyfusion


    To me, it looks like it. Depending on the drive manufacturer, healthy values may differ, but are typically values like 100, 200 or 256. Eg, on one of my drives, the current value is 200, worst is 200, and the threshold is 140, so if the current value goes below 140, it will turn up as a fail. Your value is less than the threshold, so it looks like it's on it's way out - I certinally wouldn't trust it.

    However, I'd have expected the reallocated sector count raw value to be large. Most of my hard drives are 0, but I have two hard drives (same model, different to all the others) that have a value of 8 (8 may be their "zero" value). But I've seen people report raw values in the millions or billions (google will throw up relevant discussions).

    Are any of the other values failing? Typically look for values that are not values like 100, 200 or 256. You can export the data of a selected drive, or paste a screen grab if you want someone to have a look at it.


  • #6
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Hi...
    I installed a new Western Digital Scorpio 120GB.
    No more problems... boots up quick and runs nice and quiet...
    €60 well spent..

    thanks..
    bam


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