On Thursday 02 January 2003 14:57, you wrote:
> Well that's what I get for trusting spell check :)
> Anyway.
> It's starting to act up again. I'm really suspecting it's a bad hard
> drive as I can hear noise like when a floppy disk is having trouble
> reading a track. And thinks seem to get slower as time goes by. Unless
> you know of something else I'm thinking I'm going to replace the drive.
> Do you think a reinstall with a format would fix the problem? Being
> unemployed I'm a little strapped for cash and replacing a hard drive is
> not in the budget :(
> Mike M.
How old is the drive? Is it still under warranty? If not,
check for sales at CompUSA and BestBuy. If none, check out
http://www.tcwo.com
Smitty
>
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 13:26, Smitty wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 January 2003 13:13, you wrote:
> > > Well, here's one I don't quite understand.
> > > This morning my machine was realllllllly slow it went from being a 1.1
> > > Gig to a 50 mhz processor. So I decided to reboot it took the machine
> > > about 8 mins to boot and 9 mins to startx.
> > >
> > > All things pointed to a hard drive going bad or was bad. So in
> > > desperation I decided to boot into rescue mode and run fsck.ext3. Well
> > > after about 2 hours of fsck.ext3 running I rebooted and now all appears
> > > to working.
> > >
> > > I'm glad I was able to fix it. But now I have this lingering desire to
> > > understand what/why this might have happened. Note on no boot ups did I
> > > get any kind of file system checks. Just a reallllllly slow machine.
> > >
> > > Any incite into this would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Mike M.
> >
> > I won't incite, but I will offer you some insight. It Could be that a
> > journal write was interrupted, causing some corruption. Good thing it was
> > ext3 and not another journalling fs, as ext3 has higher capabilities for
> > repair. Smitty
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