[frgeek-michiana] Re: Ubunto
- From: john jones <rainman121065@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:01:25 -0800 (PST)
well i did a test it says theres 232 bad sectors,i havent had it that long so
in short its like the old Black Sabbath Paroinid LP 33rpm record that i play
over and over and over that eventually gets old warped and scratched,really
they need to make a HD that is flawless and guarenteed for life,so ill prob be
on the market for a new HD,im not sure how to reformat Ubunto, is really good
at deban-ing,i guess ill learn......that or ill toss it through chuqs shop
window like the lady in the discount tire commercial, haha just kidding it is
startin to move a little faster doesnt know how windows acts since the upgrade
havent used windows in days,,,thanks guys:)
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From: chuq <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, January 19, 2010 1:20:38 PM
Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Ubunto
I dont know about that because Ubuntu 9.10 tends to say that a lot, I
mean I have 2 fairly new drives installed and Ubuntu 9.10 reported that
same message about both of them.. and that was in 1 system. In another I
had it tell me that on the HD in there as well.. So I do not know if it
really is the HD's or if it is being overtly picky.
We shall see later on once I run my HD utilities on it and see what it
says!
more to report on that later.. stay tuned!
hehe
Chuq
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 13:01 -0500, Richard Zimmerman wrote:
> Your emails contains your answer...
>
> <quote>
>
> only now its telling me that i have bad sectors in my drive and its no
> longer fast and efficient and is starting to really suck
>
> </quote>
>
> Simply put, you have a hard drive failing. If Ubuntu is taking the time
> to tell you, it's already dead.
>
> Here's what's happening.
>
> As the drive spins and the heads are reading/writing information, at
> some point the metallic material (the shinny stuff on the platter) will
> lose it's "organization" on the platter. This is perfectly normal and
> happens to all drives over time (time as in thousands of hours). As the
> drive ages and is reformatted, the metallic material is reorganized and
> can store your data again.
>
> At some point however, the metallic material will lose it's ability to
> "organize" and and then it can no longer store your data.
>
> So as the heads flies above the platter and it starts hitting these
> areas that no longer can store the data, the computer 'stops or stalls'
> while the hard drive keeps trying to read the data from the bad spot. If
> it CAN get the data reliably, it moves it to a good place and everything
> is fine. Sometimes, the area fails so quickly that the drive can not
> recover the data and basically sit there 'forever' trying to read the
> bad spot.
>
> Bottom line is, your computer will crawl if not out right crash and quit
> working.
>
> 1) You can retry reformatting the hard drive and reinstall everything.
> 2) dban the hard drive, format and reinstall everything - sometimes it
> just needs a good kick in the butt
> 3) Most often, replace the drive IT IS FAILING
>
> I've got a drive in an XP machine at home that was dead as a door nail.
> Dban and reformatted it, has been running fine for two years now. There
> is no 'science' or predictability as to when a drive will fail.
> Sometimes, it just happens.
>
> Richard
>
>
> john jones wrote:
> > Recently ive been toying with Ubunto and found it to be a nice
> > efficient fast app,well today it said something about about upgrading
> > to 9.10 version so I did after 35min it finally finished upgrading,I
> > tried to log back in and it wouldnt let me in. After a second time of
> > logging it let me in,wasnt no different then the other version I had
> > ,only now its telling me that i have bad sectors in my drive and its
> > no longer fast and efficient and is starting to really suck,can
> > somebody explain to me in elementary terms whats going wrong and what
> > i can do to fix it to be fast and efficient the way it used to be????
>
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