[Gloucs] Repairs

[Anthony Edward Cooper]

    Under Linux check the logs from messages from the kernel or smartd 
(if you have that running and the disk is recognised etc). To check for 
bad disk blocks use the badblocks program - WARNING this can take a very 
long time....

    Nice to know that MS-Windows does log something, some OSs don't even 
do that!

    Good luck.

    Tony.
Graham Nye wrote:

> David and Sharon wrote:
>
>>>>    
>>>>
>>>>> I hate to admit not being able to handle it myself, but does 
>>>>> anyone know
>>>>> a good/cheap repair person for a sickly pc.
>>>>
> ...
>
>> Having written this and removed harddrive/ put it back in again, I've
>> had no probs except for the fact that said harddrive appears to be
>> reading /writing  slowly?!
>
>
> I had this recently and it turned out to be because the disk
> was starting to fail. I suggest you run a disk sector test [1]
> and ensure your backups are up to date.
>
> Hitachi make a disk test, which also works with other
> brands of disk:
> http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT
>
> I also suggest looking in your system logs for error messages.
> Once I discovered my disk problem I found that Windows had
> been quietly recording disk problems in the system error log
> for several months without bothering to tip me off. D'oh.
>
>
> [1]chkdsk/scandisk in Windows, select the surface scan; I haven't
>    tried this in Linux so perhaps other readers could suggest
>    suitable tools. (Does fsck check the disk surface or just the file
>    structure?)
>
>


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