RE: [OT] Hard Disk Dying

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Surely if the disc is 6 months old it's under warranty...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Gordon [mailto:paul@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 March 2005 09:42
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Hard Disk Dying
>
>
> Certainly worth formatting & trying again Steve, - after all,
> what have you got to lose, if the alternative is just to bin
> it?... I'm saying that with the assumption that you will use
> another disk in the production media server, so if it does
> die again you don't risk losing the data again...
>
> I have on numerous occasions in the past had similar
> circumstances, and in most cases the errors were "soft"
> errors, and a reformat cured them...
>
> Paul G.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Nye [mailto:zen65631@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 27 March 2005 07:54
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] Hard Disk Dying
>
>
> My media Server Hard disk appears to be dying. When backing up it came
> up
> with a number of error messages such as 'Disk not formatted',
> 'Unable to
> read from source or disk'. I have managed to get most of the
> information
> off
> copying directory by directory and then file by file there
> are a couple
> of
> items I couldn't retrieve.
>
> I and am now trying to work out what to do next the disk is 6 months
> old. Is
> there a utility I could run that would give me an idea of
> what is wrong
> and
> that may enable me to get the remainder off or do I just ditch it and
> get a
> new disk or re-format and try again?
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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