8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
10:44 p.m.
Thanks for such a fast reply, Tim. I shall shut down more often than usual,
rather than less than usual.
Lisi
On Saturday 08 October 2011 23:17:23 Timothy Pearson wrote:
On Saturday 08
October 2011 22:10:36 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Thanks, Tim. I can't afford to not use my main workhorse this week, so I
must
just be extra careful with backups of my important data. Would it be
likely
to help if I keep the box running permanently instead of shutting down
over-night etc.?
Lisi
It depends on the failure mode. If it is a mechanical failure (IMHO less
likely with your symptoms) then keeping the box on 24/7 prevents sudden
mechanical death at power-on. If it is bad disk material, then shutting
the box down overnight will lessen the amount of corruption from the OS
normally writing its files to the disk. On
Saturday 08 October 2011 19:41:56 Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Well, looks like the harddrive. Get a drive now, your's could fail
any
> second.
I have one on order!
Lisi
In my experience if the drive is going to die completely it will do so
without much warning. The bad sectors you are experiencing are more
like
a cancer (dying R/W heads, bad disk surface, one or more head crashes in
the past, etc.) and will continue to spread. The less you use the disk
the better, as each write access will likely corrupt more sectors.