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 Member 153 Level 23.12 Mar 2006 
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Testing Hardware?
Heya,
Somehow just now the computer made a really weird noise and then it shut down. On the next reboot (a minute later) I got "Disk Boot Failure" and I was asked to place the "system disk" and "enter" So I shut the computer and checked the connections to the hard drive which were all intact. So I just unplugged and replugged it back on. Now I'm on the computer again. I'm kinda scared that it might be failing and it's time to back-up the files (my secondary hard drive has already failed and it takes to long to format so I haven't gotten to it... long story) Anywayz is there a device to check the hardware's health status? BTW I have win xp home and it's a tragic media center Would appreciate any help and thanks ahead Jam it back in, in the dark.  ^By Auro from the FFXII board... Thanks ^^ |
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Chocorific
Member 6745 Level 38.97 May 2006
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First you should shutdown your system and get something that doesn't need write access to your harddisk. If it's really the harddisk then writing to it is possibly the worst idea at this time.
Get yourself some Knoppix live disc (DL from another machine), boot your (faulty?) system with it and do a check with smartctl (from the smartmontools package, Knoppix should have this integrated). You can output all SMART information with smartctl -d ata -a /dev/hda (or /dev/sda if the Knoppix kernel uses the new ATA layer, or some other devicename). Then let the drive proceed with some short selftest (check manual for command, I don't know them by heart) and check the SMART log for failures. If the short selftest doesn't fail then issue the long one and check again. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Member 3660 Level 18.19 Mar 2006
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In my experience taking the time to test a disk may be just long enough for it to fail completely.
I would take the drive to another computer and back up everything important on it ASAP. Don't use it until then unless absolutely necessary. This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.  |
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Chocorific
Member 6745 Level 38.97 May 2006
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A short SMART selftest runs in like 3 to 5 minutes. And I'm assuming she has already a backup of the data on the drive. If not then probably the data wasn't valuable at all ;-)
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Last edited by LiquidAcid; Aug 2, 2007 at 03:05 AM.
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Member 39 Level 34.06 Mar 2006
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I was speaking idiomatically.  |
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Chocorific
Member 6745 Level 38.97 May 2006
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Learning it the hard way then... :-)
(I also did...) What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
Member 153 Level 23.12 Mar 2006
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I'm a SHE!! >....<
Anywayz thanks I'm in the process of backing up my data... so a "smart" test huh... I'll look into that (dun know what it is) but I'll see how to work it FELIPE NO ^By Auro from the FFXII board... Thanks ^^ |
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Chocorific
Member 6745 Level 38.97 May 2006
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EDIT: Funny, you're exactly one day younger than me *g* How ya doing, buddy?
Last edited by LiquidAcid; Aug 2, 2007 at 03:10 AM.
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