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Re: Windows XP - Requires...something else...
« Reply #15 on: January 13, 2010, 09:51:28 am »
It may have been too damaged or unable to repair the corrupted data then. 

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Re: Windows XP - Requires...something else...
« Reply #16 on: January 13, 2010, 11:22:40 am »
Well, you could always get smartmontools and query the various failure counters and test the drive.

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Re: Windows XP - Requires...something else...
« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2010, 04:26:14 pm »
So, did you ever run smartmontools?  It dumps a lot of detailed technical information, but you typically only need to look for # bad sectors and certain types of failures (forget which) to decide if the drive is dying.  Before smartmontools, I had no idea that modern harddrives had these monitoring capabilities built-in.
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