Re: [Thinkpad] Sharp turn in speed

Sunday, January 25, 2004, 10:09:56 PM, you wrote:

> If the drive testing program is telling you about bad clusters, that's it.
> At the very least, your Windows installation is toast.
> Run WIPE.EXE (from the IBM/Hitachi web site) and you may be able to repair
> the drive and re-install

So that is it? Just give up? That's all the faith you'll put to IBM?

I was planning rather more scrutiny. I hope no one minds. But, if I
can't call IBM, and the web forums with actual IBM personnel are not
around, it would be nice to try something with this data. As most
everything was moved to it. If I was calling Dell, they'd take you
hours if need be, and be meticulous. And pass you on to other higher
levels.

I ran a utility called Drive Fitness Test.

When I come to start running the Quick Test, I get this:

Unhandled Exception at 000D at 00B7 224E ErrCode 7520
a:\DFT

Hate to throw error messages at you. But then, it seems a crummy
utility, if it drops out like that. I really need other utilities.
Does anyone use any utilities?

I was running Windows yesterday. So, in turn to Bruce's despondent
point of view, the system does indeed seem to be terribly poor shape
right now. It won't load Windows at all.

I was planning to reflect on exactly what particular areas are now
affected on this hard drive. And then tie that in with the current
layout of the filesystem. But will need some apps to give any
viewpoint there.

I can't see recent posts to this forum because Windows won't load.

There are various possibilities it seems. Like you could have some
errors developed on the medium. So its just bad arrangements of 1's
and 0's on the drive medium, so it can't see its left from its right.
I assume these 1's and 0's will tell it where the clusters are, and so
forth. Or, alternately, it could be bad drive electronics. It's
incapable of operating normally.

Beyond this, there is also considering how problems unfold. Like, does
it seem like any problem had spread or gone further? Like, it could
load Windows before. It just wasn't happy about it. ;-) So, was it the
same problem?

Or were other elements causing further effects.

It doesn't seem productive to have a binary state of anaylsis. Good,
bad. Toss, or keep.

Most people try to be very frugal and don't move to new product real
quickly.

-- 
Best regards,
 Adam                         
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