[access-uk] Re: POSSIBLE DRIVE FAILURE - ADVICE PLEASE
- From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:36:07 -0000
Hi Justin,
I'm sure there's a way you can get SCANDISK to put a report somewhere .
. .. You used to be able to do that in other Windows platforms. Anyone
know for XP?
Justin, mine sounds a lot healthier today, since my cleanup but I
haven't yet tried out all of my programmes. One of my problems appeared
to come from Norton and people have said what a pain it is, but I hadn't
found it to be. Once I'd sorted some things on my disk, I kept getting
a message to tell me that NORTON hadn't sent certain messages, I clicked
a button to go to the site and got nowhere at all! I had no option but
to turn off the outgoing scanning, but wasn't too worried about that
because everything's scanned coming in and I hardly ever put disks into
my machine.
I will get my friend Tim to take a proper look though - and thanks for
sharing your experiences.
--
Carol
carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Justin R
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 11:56 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: POSSIBLE DRIVE FAILURE - ADVICE PLEASE
Hi Carol and Darren,
thanks a lot Carol. I'm not really that concerned about my hard drive
as,
I'm going to replace it soon anyway. i was just going to do that so
that I
couild get a larger HD. However, I must admit, I didnt' expect my HD to
throw a wobbly on me last Thursday, lol. Everything seems OK, it just
complains during start up, then, it sorts itself out.
The report in scandisk is, mainly, accessable for sighted people who can
read very fast, LOL. On a normal scandisk i'd totally miss this report
and
wouldn't have a clue as to what the outcomes is. However, with the last
two scandisks, as things accured during the scanning, the message I got
remained on screen certainly long enough my me to put my nose to the
screen
to read them. I doubt jaws will read the reports to you as, scandisk
scan
in pre-Windows state. WEll, mine seems to.
Yep, the noise you are getting is very much the noise I get on my HD.
it's
that short whirring noise when the HD is trying to do something but,
gets
stuck.
Well, good luck with your HD Carol. I know how important these are to
our
PC's. Well, it's the brain of the PC where as the motherboard is the
heart
of it. So fingers crossed your HD will keep itself going long enough
for
you to sort out who's gonna come and have a look at it.
all the best,
Justin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:13 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: POSSIBLE DRIVE FAILURE - ADVICE PLEASE
> Justin,
>
> Thanks for your concern and you have mine also.
>
> Well, on about the third attempt I got it to perform a Scandisk but I
> still couldn't find any report. (Perhaps I haven't got that facility
> turned on or something in XP!)
>
> Anyway, I then did a Defrag and it worked and didn't swipe my JAWS
> key, which I'd forgotten to take off.
>
> So far so good! I then started work with it and kept getting Norton
> wanting to send me to their site but, on pressing the appropriate
> button, I never ended up anywhere but the myre! I have now turned off
> Outgoing Message Scan again, as I used to have to do. I still have
> AVG doing this and both systems scan incoming, so that doesn't worry
> me too much. I just hope this is sufficient but am listening hard to
> that HD which certainly hasn't been very happy for some few days now.
>
> Certainly things are working faster but I'm not yet convinced.
>
> Justin, hard drives can go after a very short while, and sometimes do,
> and other times they'll last a year or two, then still others go on
> for longer! I have sometimes had trouble after a year or two myself.
>
> Listen out for the heads which sometimes sound as though they're
> moving across the disk but can't stop or find what they want . . ..
> (That's what I felt I could hear.)
>
> Anyway, all the best and I hope things get better for you soon!
>
>
> --
> Carol
> carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Justin R
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 6:01 PM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: POSSIBLE DRIVE FAILURE - ADVICE PLEASE
>
>
> Hi Carol,
>
> funny you should post this, lol. I'm experiencing similar problems to
> you. Only last Thursday my hard drive made the similar noise to yours
> and my PC
> slowed up. Every task it did seemed to be a mammoth one for it.
Well,
> since then my PC has been a lot slower to start up than normal.
>
> I did one scandisk, it did work although I was told that files 3351,
> 3352, 3353, 3354 were unreadable. Then more messages about deleting
> certain signiture files and recovering other files that were lost. I
> thought about
> posting a message here but, I don't know, didn't think it was that
> important. Especially as I need a new hard drive anyway. This one is
> old
> (5 years old now) and it's time for a new one. The second scandisk
> started
> of its own accord after a crash and a few messages were had there.
>
> I don't know what to say. I'd have the phone number ready on standby
> to
>
> contact whoever will deal with the poorly hard drive. Yeah, a
> defrag. I'd try that anyway although am I right in thinking that a
> scandisk job is usually the first task to do before defragging?
>
> well, good luck with your hard drive. How old is it btw? and, can
> any tell me what the average life expectancy is of a typical hard
> drive?
>
> thanks,
>
> Justin R
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Carol Pearson" <carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 2:52 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] POSSIBLE DRIVE FAILURE - ADVICE PLEASE
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> (Not my day today . . ..) <SMILE>
>>
>> I'm trying to diagnose a problem which may be a drive failure.
>>
>> JAWS became sluggish recently and I can't pin it down to any
>> installation so I decided it was time anyway to do a SCANDISK. This
>> *DIDN'T* work. Of course, it couldn't be done whilst in Windows but
>> I
>
>> receive an error report that the SCANDISK couldn't be performed . .
>> ..
>>
>> I have recently noticed the hard disk showing signs of something
>> wrong
>
>> also - sounding a bit like a record stuck in the groove - and this
>> may
>
>> account for some or all of the problem.
>>
>> Should I try to defrag anyway, or are there any other tests I should
>> carry out before calling out an engineer?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Carol
>> carol.pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>> http://www.echurch-uk.org/testimonies/carolp.php
>>
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