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From: Cronos on 19 Jan 2010 13:30 David B. wrote: > A smart report is useless, more often than not when I find a bad hard > drive. smart believes there is no problem with the drive, it's > unreliable at best. > HDtune is good at finding bad sectors if you use the slow scan mode. I was getting BSOD on Vista once and suspected the HDD after finding no issue with ram or anything else but even the HDD manufacturer's diagnostics software didn't see the bad block causing it. Ran HDTune in slow scan mode and it found it, replaced the HDD and no more BSOD. http://www.hdtune.com/
From: Rod Speed on 19 Jan 2010 14:10 David B. wrote: > A smart report is useless, more often than not when I find a bad hard drive. smart believes there is no problem with > the drive, it's unreliable at best. Wrong. You do need to be able to interpret the raw data and not just mindlessly look at the OKs, and when you do that, you can often see a failing hard drive from the number of reallocated sectors etc. >> Gary wrote: >>> What does it usually mean when I run a disk scan for bad sectors on >>> c drive and the result is "Windows was unable to complete the disk >>> scan" The symptom is a blue screen saying that there is most likely a bad >>> piece of hardware. >> >> Download the free Everest utilities, from the following website: >> >> http://www.lavalys.com/ >> >> Run the Storage -> SMART report on the appropriate hard drive, and >> post the results to your reply. >> >> Yousuf Khan
From: Arno on 19 Jan 2010 15:25 In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage David B. <mail(a)nomail.net> wrote: > A smart report is useless, more often than not when I find a bad hard drive. > smart believes there is no problem with the drive, it's unreliable at best. Nobody said to look at the "smart status", which is pretty useless. Hovever the concrete values of the individual SMART attributes are not. Seems you are not using 99% of what SMART offers. Arno > -- > -- > "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:4b55ca94$1(a)news.bnb-lp.com... >> Gary wrote: >>> What does it usually mean when I run a disk scan for bad sectors on c >>> drive and the result is "Windows was unable to complete the disk scan" >>> >>> The symptom is a blue screen saying that there is most likely a bad piece >>> of hardware. >> >> Download the free Everest utilities, from the following website: >> >> http://www.lavalys.com/ >> >> Run the Storage -> SMART report on the appropriate hard drive, and post >> the results to your reply. >> >> Yousuf Khan -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
From: db on 19 Jan 2010 16:07 in order to be sure you should boot up with a xp cd and execute the repair/ recovery console. once logged in and your at the disk prompt run the following command>: chkdsk /r then "exit" and try booting into normal mode. -- db���`�...�><)))�> DatabaseBen, Retired Professional - Systems Analyst - Database Developer - Accountancy - Veteran of the Armed Forces - @Hotmail.com - nntp Postologist ~ "share the nirvana" - dbZen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > "Gary" <nospam(a)ntr.net> wrote in message news:#7tCe0PmKHA.5520(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > What does it usually mean when I run a disk scan for bad sectors on c > drive and the result is "Windows was unable to complete the disk scan" > > The symptom is a blue screen saying that there is most likely a bad piece > of hardware. > > > Gary
From: David B. on 19 Jan 2010 16:30
Don't really need it, by the time a PC hits my bench the drive is usually to the point where even the geek squad could tell it's bad. -- -- "Arno" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:7rmiq8Fo52U3(a)mid.individual.net... > In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage David B. <mail(a)nomail.net> wrote: >> A smart report is useless, more often than not when I find a bad hard >> drive. >> smart believes there is no problem with the drive, it's unreliable at >> best. > > Nobody said to look at the "smart status", which is pretty useless. > Hovever the concrete values of the individual SMART attributes are > not. Seems you are not using 99% of what SMART offers. > > Arno > > > > >> -- > > >> -- >> "Yousuf Khan" <bbbl67(a)spammenot.yahoo.com> wrote in message >> news:4b55ca94$1(a)news.bnb-lp.com... >>> Gary wrote: >>>> What does it usually mean when I run a disk scan for bad sectors on c >>>> drive and the result is "Windows was unable to complete the disk scan" >>>> >>>> The symptom is a blue screen saying that there is most likely a bad >>>> piece >>>> of hardware. >>> >>> Download the free Everest utilities, from the following website: >>> >>> http://www.lavalys.com/ >>> >>> Run the Storage -> SMART report on the appropriate hard drive, and post >>> the results to your reply. >>> >>> Yousuf Khan > > > -- > Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: > arno(a)wagner.name > GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 > 338F > ---- > Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |