[CVALE] Palimpset Disk Utility: "Disk Has Many Bad Sectors"

[Landon Blake]

I burned the diagnostic disk from Dell for my laptop. All of the tests I
ran on my hard disk came back reporting no problems.

I guess both operating systems are unhappy with the way GParted created
the partition I installed Ubuntu into.

Landon
Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Hall [mailto:mhall at mhcomputing.net] 
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:38 AM
To: Landon Blake
Subject: Re: [CVALE] Palimpset Disk Utility: "Disk Has Many Bad Sectors"

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 11:18:11AM -0800, Landon Blake wrote:
> Grant,
> 
> Thanks for your post. I got my Dell diagnostic CD running right now.
It
> should tell me how many bad sectors I've got. Turns out Windows XP was
> complaining about the hard drive also.
> 
> I've probably got a bum drive on my laptop, which stinks. I'll keep
you
> guys posted on the ultimate outcome.
> 
> Landon
> Office Phone Number: (209) 946-0268
> Cell Phone Number: (209) 992-0658

Landon,

Don't worry too much.

I just purchased a Seagate 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA 3Gb NCQ 2.5" notebook
drive from Newegg for $120 with tax and free UPS 3-day.

They are a lot cheaper now than they ever used to be.

Good Luck,
Matthew.


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