Testing Hardware?

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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 ;-)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Learning it the hard way then... :-)


(I also did...)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Tsunade

I'm a SHE!! >....<

Corrected, sry...

Originally Posted by Tsunade

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Mo...ing_Technology

EDIT: Funny, you're exactly one day younger than me *g*

How ya doing, buddy?