Computer is sluggish

[unlovedwarrior]

I'd be very concerned about the bad sectors on your HD before going any further with this.

Really? This may be where my naivete starts to show... I figured 48KB bad meant that 99.991808462 percent of my drive was A-OK... Can't Windows account for bad sectors?

ummm if thoses bad sectors have information on them then that could be bad, maybe that could explain why some of your files are acting werid and why defrag is taking for ever and the other program

[rjbinney]

OK, the progress bar has moved one block in the last hour or so. So it will keep cooking.

Question, though - about the bad sectors - isn't there a way to tell Windows to stay away from those bad sectors? Mark them as toxic, so they just sit there?

And does that chkdsk report mean that 48KB are ALL that are bad? Or is it that out of what's been written, 48 are bad? And there's untold blank-but-bad sectors out there?

Ugh!

[unlovedwarrior]

from my knowledge you cant quarantin the bad sectors.

when you did the error checking program did you select both boxes?? cuz the top one is suppose to fix errors.

[rjbinney]

when you did the error checking program did you select both boxes?? cuz the top one is suppose to fix errors.

Um,


no.


I just selected the "attempt recovery of bad sector" option. It seemed more relevant. At the time. [gulp]

Is there a way to stop this process? Or just let it run out?




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Not that I'm ready for an "end of life" discussion, but what are peoples' thoughts on buying a replacement HD from ebay?

[unlovedwarrior]

let it run.. where did you find this program?? did you try using the windows scan disk?

depends is the hdd new used? will it even work in your computer? which shouldn't be a problem

[rjbinney]

let it run.. where did you find this program?? did you try using the windows scan disk?

Right-click on C: => Properties => Tools => Error-Checking

depends is the hdd new used? will it even work in your computer? which shouldn't be a problem

Presuming the seller says it's new and for my machine....

[Raptor]

I'd be very concerned about the bad sectors on your HD before going any further with this.

Really? This may be where my naivete starts to show... I figured 48KB bad meant that 99.991808462 percent of my drive was A-OK... Can't Windows account for bad sectors?

ummm if thoses bad sectors have information on them then that could be bad, maybe that could explain why some of your files are acting werid and why defrag is taking for ever and the other program

One rotten apple leads to a rotten batch, the same goes for spoiled teenagers and it also happens to apply to bad sectors.

If you find a damaged sector, you should replace the Hard Disk Drive or use it for unsensitive data. But don't be surprised when Windows one day fails to load.

[rjbinney]

One rotten apple leads to a rotten batch

I don't think so. Faulty causality reasoning there... Like the dead canary doesn't CAUSE the miners to die, it only indicates a condition that will lead to that inevitable conclusion.

So, no, one rotten apple only indicates that the conditions are present which will cause an entire batch, er bushel (paint is made in batches, apples grow on trees), to go bad.

So, unless you're saying that the conditions that CAUSED those sectors to go bad will, or, at the very least, MAY, cause OTHER sectors to go bad, well, then...

Oh, wait.

That IS what you're saying.

Never mind.

[unlovedwarrior]

I think so

[Fed]

What if your canary has bird flu

I think it depends on what caused the bad sectors, have a read here.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1583&page=3
The whole 9 pages... it's an education.

[rjbinney]

I'll read it, but I know what caused them.

I dropped the frigging thing in June.

Reinstalled Windows in July.

Run like a champ since.

Til Monday.

[Fed]

I think all you can do at this point is run all the HD tests you can find then if it still comes up OK do a clean install.
We could be chasing the sluggish problem forever if there's a problem with the HD.
Lapstops are notoriously hard on HDDs due to heat I believe.

[unlovedwarrior]

thankfully i got a two year warranty on mine

[rjbinney]

[unlovedwarrior]

you should have had it fix errors automaticall