Slow laptop Pt2 :(

Zeb · 11th May 2007, 13:11

You might remember my previous thread regarding constant disk accessing on my laptop? Today, it made some deliciously crunchy noises and froze solid....having tried rebooting etc. and failing to get anywhere I then tried going into setup at the pre-boot stage...which told me I had no Hard Drive! So having reconfigured this it then started and went through chkdsk collecting orphaned files etc. It has now just restarted as I type on OH's laptop. No crunchy noises from the Hd and all seems well. My question? Roughly how long have I got before my entire HD content is gone forever?:SHOCKED:

Gryphon · 11th May 2007, 13:17

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Originally Posted by Zeb

You might remember my previous thread regarding constant disk accessing on my laptop? Today, it made some deliciously crunchy noises and froze solid....having tried rebooting etc. and failing to get anywhere I then tried going into setup at the pre-boot stage...which told me I had no Hard Drive! So having reconfigured this it then started and went through chkdsk collecting orphaned files etc. It has now just restarted as I type on OH's laptop. No crunchy noises from the Hd and all seems well. My question? Roughly how long have I got before my entire HD content is gone forever?:SHOCKED:

Could be 1 min 1 hour a year or forever you can never tell really just make sure you have a back up of your important data.

Zeb · 11th May 2007, 13:19

I am busily backing up (again) now.....all my blinking job applications / cvs and stuff....better to have multiple copies rather than none at all methinks!

JohnDotCom · 11th May 2007, 21:29

Mark any Bad sectors Zeb to stop access to those areas of Hard Drive, but as stated it sounds like aa early sign of failure.
Does your Hard Drive have SMART activated in Bios?
This at least can sometimes detect problems before they get serious on your Hard Drive and warn you.

Zeb · 11th May 2007, 21:31

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Originally Posted by JohnDotCom

Mark any Bad sectors Zeb to stop access to those areas of Hard Drive, but as stated it sounds like aa early sign of failure.
Does your Hard Drive have SMART activated in Bios?
This at least can sometimes detect problems before they get serious on your Hard Drive and warn you.

Smart now activated but how do I mark bad sectors?

Zeb · 12th May 2007, 09:28

Oh well, too late, it died this morning

with all my photos not backed up because the cdr/w drive failed too...time for a (cheap) new one!

11th May 2007, 13:11	#1
Zeb Banned MGZT V8 & ZTT 190+LPG Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 8,089 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Slow laptop Pt2 :( You might remember my previous thread regarding constant disk accessing on my laptop? Today, it made some deliciously crunchy noises and froze solid....having tried rebooting etc. and failing to get anywhere I then tried going into setup at the pre-boot stage...which told me I had no Hard Drive! So having reconfigured this it then started and went through chkdsk collecting orphaned files etc. It has now just restarted as I type on OH's laptop. No crunchy noises from the Hd and all seems well. My question? Roughly how long have I got before my entire HD content is gone forever?:SHOCKED:

11th May 2007, 13:19	#3
Zeb Banned MGZT V8 & ZTT 190+LPG Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 8,089 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I am busily backing up (again) now.....all my blinking job applications / cvs and stuff....better to have multiple copies rather than none at all methinks!

11th May 2007, 21:29	#4
JohnDotCom * Rover 75 FaceLift Tourer CDTi 170BHP Auto ConnSE 2005 Model Starlight Silver Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Abergele Posts: 28,735 Thanks: 0 Thanked 6 Times in 5 Posts	Mark any Bad sectors Zeb to stop access to those areas of Hard Drive, but as stated it sounds like aa early sign of failure. Does your Hard Drive have SMART activated in Bios? This at least can sometimes detect problems before they get serious on your Hard Drive and warn you.

12th May 2007, 09:28	#6
Zeb Banned MGZT V8 & ZTT 190+LPG Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 8,089 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Oh well, too late, it died this morning with all my photos not backed up because the cdr/w drive failed too...time for a (cheap) new one!