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Linux_User
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Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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Hi all,
Long story short, the PC has taken to random rebooting. It seems fine in general usage, and I've never witnessed a blue screen myself, but if I leave the machine doing something overnight when I check it in the morning it will have rebooted.
Event Viewer is chock-full of "The device, \Device\Harddisk0\DR0, has a bad block." errors, I'm guessing the System Drive is on the way out, but there are also similar errors for the CD-ROM drive (but not the other hard disks), so any ideas?
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| Sun Jan 16, 2011 8:20 am |
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rustybucket
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Jun 18, 2009 5:10 pm
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Are the cables connected & working properly?
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| Sun Jan 16, 2011 10:18 am |
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pcernie
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Location: Belfast
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I had a similar problem when I installed an IDE disk as a slave to my SATA, figured I just hadn't configured things right (jumper or BIOS settings, I dunno). Anyway, this was many moons ago, and I never found out for certain as I wound up using it as an external drive...
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| Sun Jan 16, 2011 12:07 pm |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
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Location: Bramsche
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Spinrite from GRC.com, works wonders. I use it all the time to keep disks in working order or to rescue disks which are going bad.
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| Sun Jan 16, 2011 2:08 pm |
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Linux_User
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 3:29 pm
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Wow. I was a bit cautious about splashing out £50, but I'm glad I did! I ran a level 4 scan on all 3 disks, and now not an error in sight! Cheers big_D! 
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| Mon Jan 17, 2011 5:24 pm |
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big_D
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:25 pm
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Location: Bramsche
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It is a great piece of software, simple, compact (written in assembler) and does a brilliant job. It is a little known wonder tool.
It works great on TiVo, PS3, Xbox etc. drives as well! It ignores the format, it hits the hardware and reads and re-writes every physical sector and re-reads and re-writes until it gets no errors. It can take a long time on some drives, but it does its job well.
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| Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:25 am |
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phantombudgie
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Wed Aug 19, 2009 1:45 pm
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+1 In my case it couldn't rescue the whole disc (it was about as dead as possible whilst still being able to rotate), but was enough to help me recover 3 years' worth of critical data for a family member.
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