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EBMisfit · 04-07-2006, 12:07 PM

My hard drive is showing signs that it is not for long in this world, like the time I booted up about a week ago and no fonts showed up on the login window. Only my CD-ROM showing up as being recognized by the system at bootup. Scandsk reporting that the c drive has been corrupted. Then again, at a little over three years old, it's lasted longer than I probably have any right to expect it to. Thus, I am going to take what is almost an unprecedented step for me and actually try to prepare for the day that it shuffles off its mortal coil.
I currently have two other drives, a 40G and a 160G and I plan to use the former as the main drive after moving the files I have on it onto the latter. However, installing the HD on this system the first time, I had to run a disk wizard program in order to get the system to recognize the full 160G. I was hoping this was a one time deal, but it's been my experience that things don't always work out the way I hoped and would appreciate some confirmation, one way or the other, as to whether I would have to format it again.

BTW, I'm running W2K, if that matters any.

04-07-2006, 12:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
EBMisfit Earthbound Misfit, I Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Earth Posts: 2	Eulogy for John Q. Harddrive My hard drive is showing signs that it is not for long in this world, like the time I booted up about a week ago and no fonts showed up on the login window. Only my CD-ROM showing up as being recognized by the system at bootup. Scandsk reporting that the c drive has been corrupted. Then again, at a little over three years old, it's lasted longer than I probably have any right to expect it to. Thus, I am going to take what is almost an unprecedented step for me and actually try to prepare for the day that it shuffles off its mortal coil. I currently have two other drives, a 40G and a 160G and I plan to use the former as the main drive after moving the files I have on it onto the latter. However, installing the HD on this system the first time, I had to run a disk wizard program in order to get the system to recognize the full 160G. I was hoping this was a one time deal, but it's been my experience that things don't always work out the way I hoped and would appreciate some confirmation, one way or the other, as to whether I would have to format it again. BTW, I'm running W2K, if that matters any.