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Member 805
Level 19.24
Mar 2006
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Apr 26, 2006, 02:26 PM
Local time: Apr 26, 2006, 01:26 PM
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Ascendancy's right, you've got a dead disk.
I just fixed someone's box that was suffering from the same thing a few months back. Sometimes it would boot, sometimes not, sometimes it would login and sometimes not. OS would mysteriously randomly hang when they'd do anything but let it sit there, etc. I figured "reinstall," and oh was I wrong. Disk was hosed, so I priced out HDDs and had them order one. System's been running fine ever since I installed the new drive.
You could maybe try a low-level format, but you have to be careful to make sure you get the model-specific utility for your drive. Even then, I wouldn't use it for anything more than throwing in a USB box and using as portable temporary storage.
Luckily disks are pretty cheap right now, and Seagate just announced a 750GB single disk. That should be enough to keep you going for a while.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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CelticWhisper