Eulogy for John Q. Harddrive

EBMisfit · 04-07-2006, 11:07 AM

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.

MOOS · 04-13-2006, 05:55 AM

it is indeed a rainy day when a hard drive is no longer for this world...
rust in peace.

regards formatting...
probably not a bad idea... it'll be good for a fresh start, and give you something to do while in mourning.

EBMisfit · 04-17-2006, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by MOOS

regards formatting...
probably not a bad idea... it'll be good for a fresh start, and give you something to do while in mourning.

I'm sorry, but I seem not to have clearly defined the problem. I'm just planning on re-installing W2K on the 40 Gig and am trying to AVOID having to having to reformat the 160 Gig, since I have a bunch of downloaded freeware on it. I contacted Seagate through their help service and the best they could give me seems to be an unequivocable "maybe" as to whether the new system would recognize the full 160 gig after reinstalling W2K on the new drive.

04-07-2006, 11:07 AM	#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.

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04-13-2006, 05:55 AM	#2 (permalink)
MOOS Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 21	it is indeed a rainy day when a hard drive is no longer for this world... rust in peace. regards formatting... probably not a bad idea... it'll be good for a fresh start, and give you something to do while in mourning.